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Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been protesting up and down Africa's most populous nation for four straight days in protest against the axing of the petrol subsidy, which more than doubled the price to around 150 naira ($0.93) per liter. "PENGASSAN shall be forced to go ahead and apply the bitter option of ordering the systematic shutting down of oil and gas production with effect from ... 0000 hours of Sunday January 15 (2300 GMT Saturday January 14), if the federal government of Nigeria fails to yield to the popular agitation of Nigerians on her unacceptable approach to fuel subsidy removal," the oil union said in a statement. Industry officials doubted unions would be able to stop crude exports completely because much of production is automated and Nigeria has crude stored in reserves, but even a minor outage could have a significant impact on the economy. Worries over Nigerian oil supplies have pushed up global oil prices. Nigeria produces more than 2 million barrels of crude oil per day and is a key supplier to United States, Europe and Asia. Crude exports provide Africa's second-largest economy with over 90 percent of foreign exchange revenues. "If there is any disruption to oil production it would be a serious escalation and the government would be likely to use legal or enforcement means to stop it," said Kayode Akindele, partner at Lagos-based investment firm 46 Parallels. Container shipping group Maersk Line said it was unable to bring its vessels carrying consumer goods and foodstuffs into Nigeria's ports as a fourth day of nationwide strikes brought terminals to a standstill. A source at the presidency said President Goodluck Jonathan was due to meet the unions anytime from around 5pm (1600 GMT) to discuss the impasse. Protests were ongoing in cities everywhere from the commercial center Lagos in the south to the remote and restive city of Maiduguri in the far northeast. In Lagos, tens of thousands gathered in Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, where women selling drinks and Afrobeat music pumping out of loud speakers gave the protest a carnival atmosphere. Many chanted anti-government slogans. A group of demonstrators beat drums and slapped an effigy of Jonathan across the face with leafy branches. "Our leaders have betrayed us too many times and this is the last time. They only care about themselves, not the common people," said Olu Shittu, expressing widely held view Nigeria's elite are too busy lining their own pockets to be moved by the plight of the poor. "We're staying here until they put the subsidy back." President Jonathan has shown no sign of backing down on his government's decision to scrap a subsidy economists say was wasteful and corrupt. Publicly unions have said they will only stop strikes if the government returns petrol prices to the pre-subsidy removal rate of 65 naira and the government has said it will not reverse its decision to scrap subsidies from January 1. The national assembly has already urged the government and unions to back down but without success. NEGOTIATIONS "The senate has met with labor unions at least twice and the senate met with the president at a breakfast meeting this morning," Reuben Abati, presidential spokesman, told Reuters at the presidential villa in Abuja. "I am positive something concrete will come from discussions ... they will not be held in vain." Abati refused to say if the government would concede any ground in negotiations. Banks, shops, airports and schools remained closed but small market sellers and roadside hawkers carried on trading. "We're willing to carry on the strike for as long as it takes for the government to rescind its decision on the removal of the subsidy," one protester said in the remote northeastern city of Maiduguri, which is also plagued by an Islamist insurgency and where the government Thursday imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) to 6 a.m. "We might change our strategy as the next level of protests starts," one demonstrator said in Lagos. So far the protests have been largely peaceful. Nigeria's main union remained defiant, insisting it would continue its strike until fuel price subsidies were reinstated. "We are certainly continuing with protests (Thursday). We won't surrender until the pump price of petrol is reverted to 65 naira," Owei Lakemfa, general secretary of the National Labor Congress, told Reuters by phone in Abuja. Economists say the subsidy fuelled corruption and keeping it in place would have forced Nigeria into huge external borrowing, but most Nigerians, who live on less than $2 a day, saw it as their most tangible welfare benefit. Despite holding the world's seventh-largest gas reserves and producing over 2 million bpd of crude, decades of graft and mismanagement mean Nigeria does not refine its own fuel. Jonathan is now facing two major security headaches - opposition to the fuel price spike and almost daily attacks by an Islamist group in the north. The leader of Boko Haram, which wants Islamic sharia law more widely applied across Nigeria, appeared in an online video Tuesday saying Jonathan did not have the capability to stop the group's insurgency. 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