Sick sent home in Nigeria strike
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Some 60 psychiatric patients are released by a hospital in north-western Nigeria after nurses went on strike.
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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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Oil unions launched a three-day strike Wednesday over worsening security in an oil-rich region on Nigeria as Chevron confirmed the death of one subcontractor and injuries to two others there.
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PRETORIA : Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police and other public sector employees walked off the job across South Africa to demand better wages in one of the biggest strikes since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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A four-day general strike in Nigeria is expected to end shortly, with neither the unions nor government giving ground.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 1 -- Public-sector workers staged a nationwide strike Friday, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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A general strike to protest against a rise in fuel prices paralyzed most economic activity in Nigeria for a second day on Thursday, but unions spared vital oil exports.
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Nigeria&#39;s main umbrella union has said it will go ahead with a general strike in Africa&#39;s top oil producer on Monday to protest against rising domestic fuel prices.
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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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Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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Nigeria's general strike is set to go ahead on Tuesday despite the government's decision to reduce the price of cooking fuel.
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Schools were closed, hospitals running a skeleton service and traffic was disrupted across South Africa on Friday as hundreds of thousands of public servants embarked on an indefinite strike.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - Nigeria's main labour union on Monday indefinitely suspended a looming countrywide strike that had threatened to shut down the oil industry in the world's No. 7 exporter.
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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's economic reforms.
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Nigerian unions on Thursday called off a  general strike which had jeopardized oil supplies from the  world's seventh largest exporter for four days, but threatened  more action within weeks unless the government cut fuel prices.
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The Nigerian high court today banned a planned general strike that would target oil plants in the worldâs seventh largest exporter.
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A terminally-ill Ghanaian woman sent home after her UK visa expired is struggling to get medical treatment.