Nigeria: Police tear-gas demonstrators, arrest Wole Soyinka

Police fired tear gas to disperse an anti-government demonstration in Lagos on Saturday and briefly arrested dozens of protesters, including the Nobel prize winning author and playwright Wole Soyinka. A coalition of opposition, human rights and civic groups under the name of Citizens Forum, called the march which began at Campos Square on Lagos Island. Many of the 500 or more protesters bore aloft banners and placards demanding President Olusegun Obasanjo’s resignation and describing last year’s elections that gave him a second term in office as fraudulent.