Fuel Strike: Nigerians Are Losers, Says FG
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The Federal Government yesterday said no person or group could claim victory from the on-going national strike as all Nigerians are losers.
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Astana - London. October 11. KAZINFORM refers to BBC News - Fuel price rises have hit many Nigerians very hard. A four-day general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil producer.
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Trade unions have joined a government team to find ways of easing the impact of a 25% rise, but refused to end the protest. Nigeria is Africa&#39;s biggest oil producer and is seeking to cut heavily subsidised fuel prices.
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LAGOS - Nigerian unions began a four-day general strike yesterday to protest against rising fuel prices, issuing their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his programme of economic reforms.
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Long queues are reported at Nigerian petrol stations as the main unions look set to call a strike over fuel price rises.
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Day and night, a mechanical roar shakes Nigeria's main city and exhaust hangs in the leaden equatorial skies. But it's not evidence of heavy industry or a mechanized army division advancing on Lagos. With corruption and mismanagement leaving Africa's oil giant chronically short of electricity, businesses and walled residential compounds run diesel generators that clatter around the clock, spewing dirty fumes skyward.
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Government and labour union negotiators have failed to reach an agreement on state-controlled fuel prices, setting the stage for a nationwide workers&#39; strike in Africa&#39;s largest oil producer.
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Brent crude futures on the London oil market reached USD50 a barrel today as Nigerian oil workers went on strike. Nigerian unions launched a four-day general strike to protest rising fuel prices, but oil shipments
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LAGOS, Nigeria: A union leader who called a nationwide strike to protest rising fuel prices in Nigeria warned that the strike could be extended if serious violence breaks out or the government refuses to consider its demands.
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Defiant Nigerian union leaders took their nationwide general strike into a third day and gave no sign of faltering over their demand that President Olusegun Obasanjo find a way to slash fuel prices.
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Nigeria&#39;s senior union leaders have called for an indefinite general strike to disrupt oil supplies in the Niger Delta. The strike is a protest against Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which they said is an &quot;enemy of the Nigerian people&quot;.
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A general strike in Nigeria, which has raised fears over oil supply from the world&#39;s seventh-largest exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday &quot;all going well&quot;, union leaders said.
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Nigerian cities are quiet as trade unions stage a general strike over fuel prices and VAT, despite concessions.
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ABUJA  - Nigerian union leaders vowed Monday to push on with a four-day general strike over rising fuel prices after side-stepping an attempt by President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s government to appease them with talks.
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Nigeria's umbrella union body said on Tuesday it would give the government until Sunday to reverse a 20 per cent hike in domestic fuel prices in the world's eighth largest oil producer or it would call a general strike.
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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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A general strike in Africa&#39;s top oil  producer began on Wednesday after unions rejected government  concessions on fuel prices as too little too late.