Nigeria announces fuel price cuts
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Nigeria's government cuts the price of fuel in a bid to avert a planned general strike by the country's biggest unions.
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still near the record high of $53 a barrel -- slipped a little Friday, as Nigerian union leaders and government officials entered last-minute talks to resolve a dispute over rising fuel prices.
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Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a  general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government  agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, union leaders said.
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Oil prices eased on Monday after  rebels in Nigeria withdrew a threat to target oil operations,  but lingering concerns over stretched supplies ahead of winter  kept prices close to $50.
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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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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 will
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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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Nigerian unions have decided to hold an indefinite general strike on November 16 to protest against rising fuel prices in the world&#39;s eighth largest oil exporter.
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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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LAGOS, Nigeria - With world oil prices surging to new highs, union leaders in Nigeria imposed a four-day strike yesterday across this volatile West African nation to protest the rising cost of fuel at home, shutting down huge swathes of the commercial
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ABUJA : Nigeria&#39;s unions suspended their general strike and gave President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s government two weeks to find a way to cut rising fuel prices, the country&#39;s top labour leader said.
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OPEC President Edmund Daukoru said Nigeria decided to cut oil exports this month because the world market was slightly oversupplied and said he hoped other OPEC members would follow suit.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo attempted to calm labor discontent Friday ahead of a planned general strike, saying he would order the reduction of kerosene prices.
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A nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes shut down Nigeria's commercial capital on Monday, emptying the streets of most traffic except soldiers and anti-riot police in armored vehicles.
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THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is hiking its official output by one million barrels per day effective November with Nigeria getting 82,000 barrels per day or 8.2 per cent of the new quota.
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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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OPEC Friday agreed to cut oil production by about 4 percent in an effort to prop up falling prices.