Storm over subsidies brings Nigeria to tipping point

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  • Opposition arguments
  • Jonathan vulnerability
  • Electoral legitimacy
  • Boko Haram
  • 'Occupy Nigeria'
  • Government response
  • Security spending
  • Public order policing
  • Elite withdrawal
  • Tipping point?
  • Popular uprising
  • Deepening divisions
  • Protest amid rising sectarianism
  • Cosmopolitan popular protest
  • Entrenching divisions

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