First Phase of Nigeria Strike Due to End Thursday
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A general strike in Nigeria which has  raised fears over oil supply from the world's seventh largest  exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday, union  leaders said.
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As world oil prices again hit new highs, Nigeria's biggest labor federation launched a four-day nationwide strike Monday to protest the rising cost of fuel at home, shutting down huge swathes of Lagos, the country's largest city and its commercial center.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - Nigeria's main labour union on Monday indefinitely suspended a looming countrywide strike that had threatened to shut down the oil industry in the world's No. 7 exporter.
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LAGOS: A four-day general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil producer. The largest trade union grouping in the country, the Nigerian Labour Congress, said more strikes
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Oil workers in a key Nigerian petroleum center said they would go ahead with a strike planned Monday unless two expatriate oil executives blamed for cutting worker benefits heed their call to leave the country.
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LAGOS, Nigeria A union leader in Nigeria is threatening to prolong a four-day nationwide strike that has helped push world oil prices to record highs.
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The Nigerian government agreed to reduce  gasoline pump prices by 8 percent on Monday in the face of  union threats to launch an indefinite general strike over fuel  prices on Tuesday, a leading lawmaker said.
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ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian unions threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, increasing concerns about production in Africa&#39;s biggest oil-exporting nation.
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LAGOS, 15 November (IRIN) - Nigeria&#39;s powerful trade unions on Monday called off a general strike planned for the next day after the government, in an eleventh-hour move, offered an almost 10-percent cut in the price of domestic fuels.
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The head of Nigeria's main labor union said Tuesday the group would decide over the next 24 hours whether to restart a four-day strike that crippled business throughout Africa's most populous nation earlier this month.
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Lagos - Nigerian unions began a four-day general strike on Monday in protest at rising fuel prices, launching their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his programme of economic reforms.
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The chief of Nigeria's main labor organization vowed that a four-day nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes will go ahead Monday, and workers in the country's crude oil industry said they would join the work stoppage.
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A four-day strike against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, begins.
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Nigeria&#39;s crippling general strike entered a third day Friday with labour leaders and government officials deadlocked after all-night talks ended in failure.
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Nigeria&#39;s main labor union on Monday lifted its threat of a nationwide strike that would have shut down the oil industry in the world&#39;s No.
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A general strike over a rise in fuel prices brought much of Nigeria to a standstill on Wednesday but oil supplies from Africa's top producer were initially unaffected.
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Abuja - Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began yesterday a four-day nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as labour leaders launched their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.