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Organisation: Nigeria Labour Congress

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UNIONS yesterday suspended their nationwide strike in Nigeria, hours after president Goodluck Jonathan partially reinstated subsidies to keep petrol prices low and deployed soldiers in the streets to halt widening demonstrations.

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Brent crude oil prices fell sharply in the London midmorning trade.

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NIGERIAN unions prepared last night to call off a crippling general strike that had paralysed the world’s eighth-biggest oil exporter after reaching a deal with the government on a compromise price for petrol.

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