LAGOS: Onele Vincent and his colleagues are fed up with the rising cost of living. So they decided to do something about it and led a noisy protest at a top Lagos hotel where they work.

“Things are more expensive, rent is high, food is high,” Vincent told Agence France-Presse last week in the lobby of the Southern Sun hotel, a favorite of the monied elite, politicians and expatriates.

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