Nigeria Cabinet to Hold Emergency Meeting Over Fuel Protests
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet today to discuss the goverment’s scrapping of subsidies on fuel, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told Channels Television.
The Nigeria Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria are scheduled to meet today to set a date for a strike involving “tens of millions” of people, NLC Secretary-General Owei Lakemfa said by phone in Abuja. One protester was shot and killed by police yesterday in Ilorin, the capital of the central state of Kwara, he said. Protesters marched in the market area of Yaba in the commercial capital, Lagos, as long lines of vehicles formed around fuel stations.