Oyo State has been added to the list of states where frustrated citizens protested the high cost of living.
Niger and Kano have witnessed similar protests.
On Monday morning, protesters converged on Mokola area of Ibadan over high cost of living, food inflation and hardship in the country.
Protesters walked on the streets holding up placards some of which read:
‘The poor are starving,’ ‘Tinubu, don’t forget your promises’, among others.
Policemen were seen guarding the protesters against taking law into their hands, Daily Trust reports.
The police had on Sunday warned that no breach of peace would be allowed during any protest in the state.
Checks by Daily Trust in Abuja, Kano, Lagos and Jos, showed that citizens were filling a 12.5 kilogramme cylinder of cooking gas with about N18,000.
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALGAM) had last year predicted that a 12.5kg cylinder would cost N18, 000 going by the frequent increases.
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