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The nightly vigilante patrols extended into daytime as rumours of attacks spread

No-one had witnessed a robbery incident.Jamiu Ayofalaji, who lives in the Ogba area of Lagos, said he heard gunshots and mobilised other residents to burn tyres to let the "robbers know that we are not sleeping".He said he did not see any armed robbers in his three days of keeping a night-vigil.Deji Francis also heard gunshots and that "some guys were robbing in the area so there was panicking," but he did not see anything.

BBC journalist Fiona Lamdin, left, used a racially offensive slur during a news broadcast on July 29 when interviewing the victim of a racist hit and run attack in Bristol. The post was later deleted as she said it was a joke.Others said the robbers were either at their doorsteps or at the neighbours and that the police had not responded to calls.On the streets the rumour-mill was in full flow.

Everyone had heard about attacks in other streets, but not at theirs. A white BBC reporter came under fire Wednesday for using the N-word uncensored in a report describing a racist attack — giving just a few seconds’ warning it …

The BBC have finally apologised after the N-word was used in a news report covering an alleged racist attack on an NHS worker. "We are with sticks and other things to defend ourselves," he said.Lagos has long had a problem with organised youths called agberos, or area boys, who extort levies from businesses and residents.Their petty thievery are generally ignored by authorities in a state struggling with high youth unemployment.But the recent "attacks" were allegedly masterminded by more organised gangs with a militia-styled chain of command.These gangs, called cults in Nigeria because of their diabolic initiation processes and body scars, seek to control territories and commit crime. ... BBC News - Duration: 8:28. BBC Pidgin tok to some of di oga/madam dem, wey dey decide di kain tori wey dia newspaper dey publish, to hear as e be from dem.

"On one occasion, someone called to report the death of seven people but when police got there, there was nothing. Now wen pipo hear di tori and even wen dem publish am for newspaper, she say "e no dey make am to front page. Gangsters known locally as area boys operate in most bus-stops and flyovers in Lagos

"The caller was miles away from the purported incident he was reporting," he said.He said a gang war had started in Ogun state after the death of one of the leaders in a fight, leading to the arrest of 150 gang members, while hundreds of them fled into Lagos state.Rumours of armed attacks spread to Lagos by Friday and there were videos and photos online, some showing bloodied "gangsters" with their civilian captors who accused them of being robbers.Things further escalated on Sunday as there were reports of daytime attacks in the Ogba area of Lagos, a popular neighbourhood for middle-class workers.The police say there have been no armed robbery attacks, at least on the scale that has been reported on social media.Lagos police spokesman Elkana Bala told the BBC that they had arrested 100 gang members who came into the state from Ogun following the gang war.He said that the gangsters had created panic by distributing messages to frighten people. BBC News Recommended for you. Boko Haram news don be like ritual - Bisi Deji … "They know it is difficult to hit an organised community so they [gangsters] want to first disorganise them [residents]," he said.He said the vigilante groups compounded the problem as their weapons and the tyres they burnt let to further panic, with some residents mistaking them for robbers.On social media, the reaction has been almost hysterical, with one resident claiming she had gone into a dog's cage to hide from the robbers.

Arise News 7,486 views. The BBC included the word when reporting last month on a violent attack on a young Black man in Bristol, a city in southwest England. Na so Bisi Deji-Folutile, di Editor of Saturday Punch tok. Deji-Folutile, say e don too dey happun sotey "e no dey shocking" again. Police say the gangsters achieved their intention of creating panic.Residents set up makeshift checkpoints with burning tyres in border communities between Lagos and Ogun states after forming vigilante groups to protect themselves from the imaginary armed robbers.For days, groups of anxious residents - young and old, and mostly male - kept night vigils on their streets, armed with machetes, bottles and other household items.There were rumours that a group of up to 200 armed robbers were on the rampage.But the police have told the BBC that it was a widespread hoax by gangsters to create panic before attacking residents and that people had unwittingly assisted them by posting messages on social media.However, the police insist that no-one was actually attacked.Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday announced a two-week extension of a lockdown in three states, including the capital Abuja, to curtail the spread of coronavirus, but made no mention of the security situation in states where residents are concerned that the economic hardship caused by the lockdown has led to an escalation in crime.Pictures and videos of residents bracing for attacks started surfacing last Thursday with the hashtags #OgunUnrest and #LagosUnrest trending for days on Twitter.But there was no proof of armed robbery attacks in the neighbourhoods, according to the police.The first wave of reports said there were attacks around the Agbado, Sango and Ijoko areas of Ogun state that borders Lagos.On social media some residents claimed they had heard gunshots and others said they had seen people breaking into homes and in some cases maiming occupants.This user said she was not able to sleep as her "hood was being robbed.

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