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Lagos locked down, army under scrutiny after protesters fired on
TOPSHOT - Nigerian Police fire teargas at people during clashes between youths in Apo, Abuja, Nigeria, on October 20, 2020, following the ongoing demonstrations against the unjustly brutality of the Nigerian Police Force Unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)

Lagos at standstill as Nigeria protests spiral
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With Instagram, hashtags and bitcoin, Nigerians boost anti-police protests
LAGOS: The coronavirus crisis is battering media outlets across Africa that were already struggling for cash and often facing pressure from hostile authorities.

Virus crisis piles pressure on Africa media
Motorists queue in a traffic gridlock as commercial activities return at the end of a five-week COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown in Lagos, on May 4, 2020. - In the metropolis of 20 million, where exuberance and poverty live side by side, relief at being able to earn money once again was almost palpable, despite Nigeria's mounting COVID-19 coronavirus toll. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

'Today is wonderful': Relief in Lagos as lockdown ends
A man searches in a bag for his clearance document at the main gate to Omole Estate, whose occupants were attacked by armed bandits capitalising on the lockdown in Lagos, on April 14, 2020. - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on April 13, 2020, ordered a two-week extension to a lockdown in largest city Lagos, neighbouring Ogun state and capital Abuja, aimed at halting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

Unrest fears rise as Lagos extends COVID lockdown
An aerial view shows empty streets in Lagos on March 31, 2020. - Lagos was deserted on March 31, 2020, after Nigeria locked down its economic hub and shuttered its capital Abuja, in the continent's latest effort to brake the juggernaut of COVID-19 coronavirus.†Businesses were closed, markets abandoned and streets empty as the usually chaotic megacity of 20 million, along with the capital Abuja, shuddered to a halt on the first full day of a two-week shutdown. (Photo by Pierre FAVENNEC / AFP)

Millions of Nigerians enter lockdown as Africa tries to contain coronavirus
TOPSHOT - People after a gas explosion destroyed buildings and killed at least 15 people, in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on March 15, 2020 - A gas explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos killed at least 15 people, injured many more and destroyed around 50 buildings on March 15, 2020. (Photo by Benson IBEABUCHI / AFP)

Lagos explosion death toll hits 17
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