Nigeria gas price protest turns violent in Lagos

January 3, 2012 at 2:45 am in The Dickinson Press

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) An angry mob protesting spiraling fuel prices assaulted a soldier Tuesday while police shot another man at the demonstration, a sign of growing unrest over the government’s hugely unpopular decision to end a subsidy program that had kept gas costs down for more than two decades.
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