Job losses in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, are on the rise as a result of the surge in petrol prices occasioned by the removal of subsidy and the devaluation of the naira. Rising inflationary pressures in recent months have weakened the purchasing power of cash-strapped consumers, even as
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