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Your pass will need to be purchased before arriving to the tollgates.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
In Lagos on Wednesday afternoon, traffic flowed through the Lekki tollgate, where young people demonstrating against police brutality were gunned down by security forces in 2020.
—Elian Peltier, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
The nationwide #EndSARS protests, which garnered global attention, led to police opening fire on peaceful protesters and killing at least 15 people at Lagos’s Lekki tollgate.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
There is no official death toll, but an Amnesty International investigation found that at least 12 people died at Lekki tollgate and another site on October 20.
—Stephanie Busari, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
In Lagos on Wednesday afternoon, traffic flowed through the Lekki tollgate, where young people demonstrating against police brutality were gunned down by security forces in 2020.
—Elian Peltier, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
The nationwide #EndSARS protests, which garnered global attention, led to police opening fire on peaceful protesters and killing at least 15 people at Lagos’s Lekki tollgate.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
There is no official death toll, but an Amnesty International investigation found that at least 12 people died at Lekki tollgate and another site on October 20.
—Stephanie Busari, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
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“Tollgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tollgate. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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tollgate
noun
toll·gate
ˈtōl-ˌgāt 
: a point where vehicles stop to pay a toll
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