I heard gunshots, so I thought. For a second, my mind was blank. I recall lying flat beside my colleague on the freshly mowed lawn at the entrance of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. I became mindful after a passerby shouted at us to keep moving instead of lying flat on the ground.
Twice in less than a month, I became a victim of the indiscriminate use of teargas by the Nigerian police. The first incident occurred last month while I covered the resumption of Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to
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