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Police foil bomb attack in Lagos hours to protest

The Lagos State Police Command has claimed that it successfully detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) around the Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos, hours before the End Bad Governance in Nigeria protest.

Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, said that at around 4 p.m., a police officer reported at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) base at Ikeja that while he was on his way along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, he sighted an unregistered white Corolla car parked on the main road close to the gate of Police Mobile Force (PMF) 23 Barracks, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos.

Hundeyin said that the officer told the Command that a young man alighted from the car and carefully dropped a bag by the side of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit fence, returned to the vehicle, and zoomed off.

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