UPDATE ON LAGOS STATE RALLY THAT TOOK PLACE IN OJOTA TODAY

Based on the insistence of Yoruba Nation Activist Sunday Igboho to hold his mega rally today in Lagos.

According to media, few minutes before the proposed take off point of the rally at Gani Fawehinmi park Ojota with no visible sign of any protester. Instead on sight were Policemen and other security agents.

About six fully loaded vehicles with Policemen were sighted at both sides of the road - between Ojota Bus Stop and the link bridge heading towards the old Lagos Ibadan Expressway (leading to Ketu Bus stop).

No sign of any protester were seen at adjourning streets/roads like Oregun Road (Inbound and Outbound Ojota) Ogudu Road, adjourning streets like Roju Avenue, Gbadebo Street, Olabisi Street (All in Ojota) or even Ikorodu road from Ojota down to Maryland.

The Alapare, Ogudu, Oworonshoki Expressway leading into 3rd Mainland Bridge is also free of traddic with no sign of protesters.

Though there is anxiety around the area as people are cautious of moving around.

The protest though is scheduled to start by 9a After the initial announcement of postponement, Sunday Igboho's aides came out last night to inform the public that the rally will still hold despite being declared wanted by the DSS.

Meanwhile Mr Igboho has debunked the news making the rounds that he was arrested by DSS at Guru Maharaji's shrine around Ibadan yesterday.

Police seal odd Freedom Park ahead of Yoruba nation rally. A combined unit of OR MESA, task force, Rapid Response Squad and police officers numbering over 60 are present around the vincinity of the park.

More than a dozen police vehicles were stationed around the Gani Fawrehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, Lagos, ahead of today's Yoruba nation rally.

Despite a warning from the police in Lagos against the rally, the organisers had vowed to proceed with the event.

Sunday Igboho, a pro-Yoruba self determination campaigner and one of the organisers, also insisted the rally would go ahead despite the attack on his home by operatives of the State Security Service.

The protesters had gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi park seeking independence of predominantly ethnic-Yoruba states in Nigeria's southwest.

"Nigerians Have the right to protest"

says Commissioner of Police, Lagos as he addresses concerned Nigerians at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota after people begin to show up.

Yoruba Nation members at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, were chanting words like "No going Back!"

Traditionalists stormed Yoruba Nation Rally, defy police presence in Lagos.

If Sunday Igboho is not here today, he has given directives to continue the rally" says Yoruba Nation agitator!

Banners of Yoruba Nation on display at Gant Fawehinimi Freedom Park, Ojota as members joins the rally in large numbers.

However, some Yoruba nation agitators dared the security operatives by spreading banners and flyers to announce their arrival and presence.

Not longer after, shots were fired and hot water from an armoured tank was sprayed to disperse them.

One killed as Police shoot to disperse Yoruba Nation agitators at Ojota, Lagos.

A yoghurt seller, identified simply as Jumoke, was killed by bullets reportedly fired by a security operative dispersing Yoruba Nation agitators at Ojota, Lagos State.

The victim's dead body seen being covered with cloth.

According to media, who sighted the girl's corpse, observed that bullets ripped open the victim's stomach. She is said to be 14 years old.

She was reportedly displaying drinks at a shop when the bullet hit her.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had earlier addressed journalists at the venue saying no rally is allowed in Lagos.

The lagos State Police have denied involvement in the death of a 14-year-old girl hit by a stray ballet during the Yoruba Nation Mega Rally, in Ojota area of the state.

In a statement Saturday, signed by the command's spokesperson, Olamuyiwa Adejobi, the police described the allegation as a calculated attempt to create confusion and fear in the minds of the good people of Lagos State and the country at large.

Adejobi noted that policemen deployed to the protest scene did not fire a single bullet at the scene, therefore there was no way bullet could have hit anyone.

"The Command did not fire a single live bullet at Ojota rally today. The said corpse was found wrapped and abandoned at a distance, far from Ojota venue of the rally, behind MRS Filling Station, inward Maryland, on the other side of the venue, with dried blood stains suggesting that the corpse is not fresh."

"After a close look at the corpse, a wound suspectedly sustained from a sharp object was seen on it," the statement said.