Sackings over Nigeria's oil war
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Nigeria's Rivers State governor axes his cabinet after renewed clashes in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt leave seven dead.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Talks aimed at averting an  explosion of fighting in Nigeria's oil production hub were  salvaged Friday when the government called off gunships and  helicopters sent to attack rebel militia.
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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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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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A community protest in Nigeria's southeastern Abia State has forced the closure of two flowstations and a gas plant, shutting in about 35,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell announced.
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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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Nigerian unions have clashed in court with the oil giant Shell as the labour movement flexed its muscles ahead of a nationwide general strike.
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A nationwide strike went on Monday in Nigeria to protest against rising fuel prices, bringing much ofAfrica&#39;s top oil producer to a near standstill.
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Negotiations between the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and the government over rising fuel prices collapsed on Friday, forcing the labor to begin its planned strikenext week with the first phase lasting four days.
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Nigerian consortium Bluestar, led by tycoon Aliko Dangote, pulls out of a deal to take stakes in oil refineries.
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Multinational oil companies began talks with hundreds of Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms on Monday in a dispute over jobs which shut 90,000 barrels per day of oil production.
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A revolt in the African state is threatening to disrupt the country&#39;s most important export. Christian Allen Purefoy reports from Lagos on the latest conflict driving up the price of crude.
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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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Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell  has evacuated non-essential staff from two oilfields in Nigeria  where troops are fighting a major offensive against rebel  militia, a spokesman said.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria's southern oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day, company officials said Monday.
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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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Oil prices slid below the psychologically critical 50 dollar a barrel mark as tensions eased in Nigeria's southern oil heartland, where a rebel group fighting for control of the country's key resource said it had surrendered its weapons.