November 24, 2024

In deluge of protests, fuel subsidies prove hard to abolish


london – Like thousands of Nigerians and millions of others across the developing world, higher fuel costs have irked Antonia Arosanwo.

‘I am angry,’ the 46-year-old mother of five said at a bus stop in Lagos, the teeming commercial capital of Africa’s most populous nation.

Her journey from Ojuelegba, a bustling suburb just 13 kilometers north of Lagos’s business district, has more than doubled in price to



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