Forum Post: reports of strike in Nigeria when oil subsidizes cut
Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 9, 2012, 8:24 p.m. EST by MattLHolck
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LAGOS – The nationwide strike action called by organized labour and its civil society allies against the removal of the subsidy on petrol practically shut down the country yesterday as workers in private and public institutions abstained from duty. The strike action which was peaceful in most parts, however, turned bloody in Kano, Lagos and Benin where at least 12 persons were killed in controversial circumstances.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/12-killed-as-subsidy-protests-turn-bloody/
The bullets reportedly hit four of the players, one of whom died before reaching the hospital, while the second one died later at the hospital. The killer cop however fled the scene after the incident. Aggrieved youths in their hundreds were said to had carried the lifeless body of Mr Aderitan in a wheel barrow to Pen Cinema to protest the killing.
Damn.
the report of these protest seem fabricated
and the violence incidental
people on strike because oil is no longer gonna be subsidized ?
You need to apply the proverb about the straw that broke the camels back.
It is far worse there than you could imagine.
The fabrication lies in the trivialization.
if oil wasn't subsidized in the US would be paying much more per gallon
What in the World does that have to do with conditions in Niger?
Let alone, what I posted.
don't know the post is about cracks in heaven or somesuch
I imagine the people in Nigeria want to drive just like the people in the US
They mostly wanted to keep their river.
The Niger Delta has become a lib(R)tarian play ground.
thanks
what is the strike about ?
See the proverb.
It's not one thing, it's everything.
I'm not impressed with Goodluck Johnathan. The prices of spiked overnight of everything and plus the never ending corruption.