Fuel price unrest continues in Nigeria

A nationwide strike in protest at soaring fuel prices and decades of government corruption in Nigeria entered its second day yesterday.

In Lagos, the country’s commercial capital of 15 million people, youths set up a burning roadblock at a road junction leading to Ikoyi Island, home to diplomats and many of the country’s wealthy citizens.

The youths shouted: “They will kill us and we will kill them.”

Police came to clear the road as the youths threw stones.

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The strike, which began on Monday, was organised by trade unions upset at high fuel prices in the oil-rich nation.

Petrol prices have risen from 30p per litre to at least 61p a litre since the subsidy on fuel ended on January 1 at the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government.

More than 10,000 people attended one rally in Lagos as the strike began on Monday. It is not clear how long the strike will last.

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