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Nigeria reels after oil subsidy row turns into country’s biggest ever protest
Ordinary people braced for more trouble in wake of fuel protests, strikes and militant attacksBisola Edun’s electricity generator sits outside her small Lagos fashion shop and factory, noisily churning out heat and fumes for five hours every day. It is just one of an estimated 160m such machines across Nigeria – roughly one per person in Africa’s top oil economy.
published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:38:05 GMT