January 10th, 2012
04:53 AM ET

Nigeria braces for 2nd day of nationwide protests

A nationwide strike in Nigeria enters its second day Tuesday as citizens take to the streets to show anger about the government's decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverished country.

Some of the protests, over the end of fuel subsidies, Monday, were marred with clashes with police that left some wounded and a handful dead, protesters said.
The strike, continued religious violence in the north and a long-simmering separatist movement are all issues that have created a growing problem for Goodluck Jonathan, the country's president

Jonathan tried to explain the need for the end of subsidies in a recent address, urging Nigerians that  the government will invest the money in the country's crumbling infrastructure.

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  1. Scottish Mama

    How about just a .50 raise in prices? What happened to snapping the necks of consumers slowly?

    January 10, 2012 at 5:47 am | Report abuse |
  2. THE ONE AND ONLY DRAKOREX1

    HI SCOTTISH MAMA,THE BIRDS ARE STILL ASLEEP.DO YOU ALWAYS GET UP SO EARLY?

    January 10, 2012 at 6:28 am | Report abuse |
  3. Scottish Mama

    No, but I went to bed early so I guess the worms are mine.

    January 10, 2012 at 6:38 am | Report abuse |
  4. THE ONE AND ONLY DRAKOREX1

    LOL WELL ITS A LITTLE CHILLY FOR FISHIN

    January 10, 2012 at 6:44 am | Report abuse |
  5. Scottish Mama

    @Drak, it is early bird gets the worm. Fishin' no. But last weekend it was in the 60's. It will be 50 today in St. Louis. Thursday we may get some snow. It has been mild here this winter. This will be our 1st snow. I guess you are a fisherman.

    January 10, 2012 at 8:52 am | Report abuse |
  6. THE ONE AND ONLY DRAKOREX1

    5 6 7 9 NOT ME.

    January 10, 2012 at 3:27 pm | Report abuse |
  7. Philip

    The reasons gas prices rise in the US are not the same reasons they go-up in Nigeria. For starters, the United States doesn't export most of it's oil to Nigeria.

    January 10, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Report abuse |
  8. Philip

    And Nigerian citizens aren't being "gouged". That's what happens here in the USA. Nigeria is floating on oil, and is one of the world's top-ten oil exporting nations. Citizens there have been watching their oil going to foreign nations for decades as they have been watching their children starve. This angers them from time-to-time and so they protest or attack pipleines. And then you criticize them for attacking their own pipelines, when the pipelines aren't eveb theirs! Those pipelines are for YOU, America. Not them..

    January 10, 2012 at 5:23 pm | Report abuse |
  9. Conversation Stopper

    And at a time like this. Come on. We drink their oil. We could at least have the decency to discuss THEM them from time to time. It's not as if chatting about THEM will turn your diamonds yellow(er).

    January 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm | Report abuse |
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