Nigeria braces for strike as union leader released by secret ...
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ABUJA  - Nigeria braced for a nationwide strike as the country&#39;s top union leader emerged from secret police custody determined to pursue labour&#39;s opposition to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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An indefinite strike by Nigeria&#39;s two main labour unions entered its fourth day Saturday with no immediate sign of an agreement with the government on the vexed issue of petrol prices, officials said.
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Nigerian security forces arrested the  country's top union official at gunpoint on Saturday, his union  said, ahead of a general strike called for Monday which the  government has declared illegal.
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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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Nigerian oil workers' unions are to stage a brief strike protest at the lack of security in the Niger Delta.
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LAGOS, Oct 31  - Nigeria&#39;s main trade union body and a coalition of civil society groups vowed Sunday to bring their country&#39;s workforce out on strike from November 16 as their latest protest against rising fuel prices.
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A FOUR-DAY general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africaâs largest oil producer. More strikes will follow if a 25 per cent price increase is not reversed, the largest trade union in
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Lagos - Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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A four-day general strike ends in Nigeria but unions threaten more action in two weeks if petrol prices stay high.
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Nigeria's government offers to meet most union demands, ahead of Wednesday's general strike.
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ABUJA, Nigeria - Security forces released the head of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization on Sunday after a brief detention, but a nationwide strike will go ahead as planned, a spokesman for the labor group said.
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Abuja - A leading Nigerian opposition figure told AFP on Saturday that he had been released by the secret police after being detained and pressured to drop his support for an impending general strike.
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Lagos, Nigeria, 10/11 - The four-day strike called by a coalition of Nigerian labour unions and civil society organisations to protest recent fuel price hike started Monday in the country.
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Nigerian unions began a four-day strike  on Monday, helping drive world oil prices to record highs  although shipments from Africa's top exporter were unaffected.
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Nigeria's main umbrella union said Sunday  it would go ahead with a general strike in Africa's top oil  producer Monday to protest against rising domestic fuel prices.
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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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Nigeria's main trade union says it will hold a second general strike which could target oil production.