Nigeria has been brought to a standstill as hundreds of thousands of people take part in a general strike. Union leaders are demanding better wages, a drop in rising oil prices and the reversal of a new tax increase.

Nigerian citizen Debo Thorpe: “As far as Nigeria is concerned, we are rich, but the government is wasting our money on useless things, some of them having 50 houses, 150 houses, while others are living in a mud house, in a wooden house, on the water side, in the slum. We are suffering, and we are tired of this.”