An eyewitness who wrote on twitter via the LagosTrafficReports, said: “Government buses conveying civil servants all turned and returned to Ikorodu? Itowolo is also not safe. Agric, Ikorodu was (sic) unrest a couple of minutes ago. But it looks calm now from where I stand.”

According to the eyewitness, there was shooting as many civil servants and those going outside Ikorodu had to make a U-turn for fear of being hit.NYSC portal

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The riot has spread to Ketu and Ojota, also along the Ikorodu Road, but soldiers were said to have been mobilised to quell the unrest.

Another source said: “There are soldiers everywhere at Ojota. People are just running and we don’t know what is happening.”

Sources said: “There has been a report of sporadic shooting in Mile 12, with hoodlums setting bonfire on the major road due to naira scarcity.@PoliceNG and @HQNigerianArmy presently on ground to restore normalcy,” also twitted another source.

A police spokesperson in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said:

“Our officers and men are still on ground to prevent any breakdown of law and order.”JAMB Result