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police at first confirmed, and then denied, reports that they killed four people when they fired on crowds during
a general strike over massive fuel price rises on Monday. They have again used teargas against strikers outside
a government building in the capital, Abuja, while protesters in the biggest city, Lagos, have erected burning
barricades. Union leaders said the strike would continue despite President Olusegun Obasanjo's promise to...
(BBC)
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 President of the NLC, Comrade Adams Oshio-mhole,
has said that the nation's oil refineries are not operating at optimal capacity due to what he alleged, as a conspiracy
between the NNPC and oil marketers. Oshiomhole who spoke yesterday in Abuja at a rally to flag off the nationwide
strike called by the NLC to protest the latest increase in fuel prices said: "The NNPC and the oil marketers
have conspired to make sure the refineries do not... (This Day)
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