adminAs thousands took to the streets to protest soaring fuel costs, youth gangs set up roadblocks of burning tyres along major roads in Lagos and threw stones at cars while extorting cash from drivers.
Protesters marched through the streets of the city to the sound of blaring afro-beat music, sometimes with soldiers clapping and taking pictures.
Nigerians view subsidies as their only benefit from the nation’s oil wealth.
Meanwhile, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met his security chiefs yesterday as he came under mounting pressure on the second day of the nationwide strike and amid violence blamed on Islamists.
The meeting included the chief of defence staff, police chief, defence minister, Vice President Namadi Sambo. No one commented on their way in.
Security forces are also under heavy pressure over spiralling violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram.
Recent deadly attacks on Christians have sparked fears of a wider religious conflict in a country whose population is roughly divided between a mainly Moslem north and predominantly Christian south.
“We have recorded so far five deaths – on both sides, those that have been attacked and the attackers,” said Dan Enowoghomwenwa, secretary general of the Nigerian Red Cross in Edo state, told AFP – AFP.
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