Nigerian police to treat protesters who attack banks, ATMs as robbers
NIGERIAN police said some citizens frustrated by cash shortages in the country were attacking banks and vandalising cash-dispensing machines and warned that they would be treated as armed robbers. The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) said its members would stay away from work in states where bank branches were being attacked "until normalcy is restored." Ahead of next week's election to choose new lawmakers and a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, frustration is rising in Africa's most populous nation over a central bank plan to swap old naira banknotes for new ones. The move…