Upset with the price of gasoline and corrupt governments, Nigeria began a strike …

LAGOS, Nigeria

Some protesters pulling metal obstacles on the road, while others take gasoline from motorcycles to be burned tires. Others waved placards bearing the statue of President Goodluck Jonathan with devil horns and a fanged teeth, and showed him the fuel pumps at a gas station.

(Sun/Associated Press Alamba)-people protest after the removal of government subsidies on fuel in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, January 9, 2012. Workers began a nationwide strike crippled the oil-rich Nigeria on Monday, angered by rising fuel prices and decades of government corruption in a country with a population of engrained most populous in Africa.

Police carrying Kalashnikov rifles and gas masks most of the demonstrators marched on the stand as the first day of the strike called by labour limited. Protesters also took to the streets in Nigeria

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