Skip to main content
1000Reasons

January 2012Event

Occupy Nigeria protests fuel subsidy removal

Jonathan's attempt to remove fuel subsidy triggered nationwide protests and strikes.

Hall of FameFourth Republic

January 2012

Occupy Nigeria protests fuel subsidy removal

Jonathan's attempt to remove fuel subsidy triggered nationwide protests and strikes.

1000reasons.voteCFR

What happened

Jonathan's attempt to remove fuel subsidy triggered nationwide protests and strikes. The episode is an important predecessor to the Tinubu-era subsidy shock, showing how petrol prices function as social contract politics.

Sources

← Back to Fourth Republic