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Nigeria powers down as strike against gas price increase starts |
| Home | (The Associated Press) - LAGOS: Boys juggled soccer balls in deserted streets Wednesday and cars jockeyed for position at filling stations as Nigeria's labor unions launched a strike aimed at overturning government price hikes on gasoline in Africa's oil giant. Nigeria is one of the world's leading crude producers, but virtually all of its gasoline is now imported after years of graft, mismanagement and violence rendered refineries inoperable. |