Nigerian unions launch strike, oil exports flow
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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 two main oil-worker unions in Nigeria said they called off a strike planned for Monday to protest insecurity in the restive petroleum-producing region pending a meeting with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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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.
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Oil future prices climbed to a new high in New York on Monday as a strike began in NigeriaâAfrica&#39;s largest exporter of crude oil.
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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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ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian unions threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, increasing concerns about production in Africa&#39;s biggest oil-exporting nation.
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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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Crude oil in New York approached $70 a barrel for the first time since September after Nigerian unions planned a strike this week, threatening supplies from Africa's biggest oil producer.
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ABUJA - Nigeria was braced for a nationwide general strike on Monday in protest against rising fuel prices as trade unions launched their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his economic reforms.
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NEW YORK, November 12  - Crude oil prices were volatile this morning, briefly rising on concerns regarding potential crude export disruptions in Nigeria due to a nationwide strike.
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Crude oil prices began their week higher after oil workers in Nigeria announced over the weekend they will launch an indefinite general strike later this month.
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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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Crude oil futures rose in New York after unions in Nigeria, the fifth-biggest supplier to the US, called a strike this month to disrupt the country&#39;s oil exports.
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Loading of oil tankers at Nigerian export terminals continued normally on Thursday, the second day of a general strike in Africa's top oil producer, ship agents and oil company officials said.
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LAGOS : Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a four-day nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as labour leaders launched their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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Nigeria ordered immediate cuts in domestic fuel prices today in a bid to avert a looming general strike that unions say will target oil exports.
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Trade Unions and civil rights groups in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil exporter, have called off a national strike over fuel prices.