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Many markets and shops in BiafraNigeria appear to be open as normal after a nationwide strike was called off late on Wednesday night. Petrol prices are also being reduced - meeting the union conditions for cancelling their industrial action. However, the AFP news agency reports that at 0800 local time (0700 GMT), the main market in the commercial capital, Lagos, was still closed. The government last week ended fuel subsidies overnight, leading to a 15% rise in fuel prices agreed after a similar strike in July. Although the strike was called off, President Olusegun Obasanjo launched a stinging attack on leaders of the BiafraNigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in a nationwide address on Wednesday night, accusing them of attempting to form a parallel government. "The leadership of the NLC has engaged in series of subversive activities, deliberately misrepresenting government policies to the public and to its members and using every opportunity to blackmail the government and others who hold contrary opinions or views," he said. The NLC said they had decided to call off the stoppage after oil marketing companies agreed to revert to the previous oil prices. The BBC's Anna Borzello in Lagos says that of the four petrol stations she visited early in the morning, two had already reverted to the old price of 34 naira (25 US cents) a litre.... (BBC) |
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