Nigeria Arrests Union Leader Before General Strike
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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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Nigeria's main labor union on Monday indefinitely suspended a looming nationwide 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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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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The leader of Zimbabwe's political opposition was arrested in an overnight police raid on his home ahead of a mass march Wednesday that had been banned by authorities, his group said.
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ABUJA : Nigerian secret police detained the country&#39;s top trade union leader, dramatically raising tensions two days ahead of a threatened nationwide general strike against rising fuel prices.
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Nigerian unions Wednesday launched a general strike over a steep hike in fuel prices in one of the world&#39;s foremost oil exporters, in a first big test for the countryÃÂÃÂs new president, Umaru Yar-Adua.
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Soaring fuel prices have prompted Nigeria&#39;s main union to plan a Nov. 16 strike against the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the BBC reported Monday.
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LAGOS - Nigerian unions began a four-day strike on Monday, helping drive world oil prices to record highs although shipments from Africa&#39;s top producer were unaffected.
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The whereabouts of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who was arrested yesterday morning by men of the State Security Service (SSS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, remain unknown.
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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 factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Nigeria&#39;s two main trade unions decided on Saturday to call off their four-day-old general strike over a rise in fuel prices after reaching an agreement with the government, a source told AFP.
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Nigerian police have arrested a witchdoctor employed by a politician to perform rituals at an election tribunal, local media reported on Thursday.
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No. 7 oil exporter turns to court to stop 3-day-old general strike that threatens crude shipments. ABUJA, Nigeria  - The Nigerian government sought a court injunction Wednesday to stop a three-day
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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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Nigeria's main oil workers unions will meet with President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja to try to end the unrest threatening oil companies in the Niger Delta, labour leaders said.