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Nigerian fuel protesters erect burning roadblock outside wealthy area
Demonstrators target rich Ikoyi Island as strike enters day twoAngry youths have erected a burning roadblock outside a wealthy enclave in Nigeria’s commercial capital as a paralysing national strike over fuel prices and government corruption enters its second day. The flaming tyres and debris sent thick, dark smoke over part of Ikoyi Island, home to diplomats and many of the oil-rich nation’s wealthy elite.
published date:Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:21:35 GMT