The protest over rejection of old naira notes and scarcity of the new currency, in Lagos State, has spread to Sango area of Ogun state on Friday morning.
Sango is one of the communities linking Lagos and Ogun States.
The development comes a day after President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the old N500 and N1000 notes no longer remain legal tender.
The protests which began in Mile 12, Ketu axis area of Lagos state over naira scarcity, spread to other areas in Lagos, including Iyana-Ipaja, Agege and Iyana-Iba.
Motorists and residents who were on their way to different places of work hurriedly turned back in panic as the rioters went berserk with bonfires set across the road.
According to Leadership, few hours later, market women staged an anti-Buhari protest over the rejection of the old N1,000 notes and the scarcity of new naira notes in Sango area of Ogun State.
The riot spread to Ogun communities as the naira woes worsened.
It was gathered that the protesters barricaded the Mowe end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and turned back motorists and travelers.
The protesters resisted Police intervention and threatened to set the Police station in the area ablaze.
Sabo roundabout in Ikorodu axis wasn’t left out of the civil unrest as protesters burned tyres and ripped off politicians’ campaign posters from walls.
Speaking on TVC News’s Your View, Lagos Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said the cause of the protest is yet to be ascertained.
He, however, noted that there have been “rumours” that the unrests have to do with the naira notes scarcity crisis. Hundeyin said no casualty has been recorded, adding that normalcy has been restored. The Police spokesman also said no arrest has been made.
See photos of the protests in Ogun State below: