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Last Updated: Friday, 11 June, 2004, 16:04 GMT 17:04 UK
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Nigerian union calls off strike
Petrol station prices
Some petrol stations are reducing their prices
Nigeria's largest union has called off an ongoing national strike after filling stations slashed petrol prices.

The country's top union leader said that the price had been cut "substantially", and there was no reason to carry on with the protest.

On Thursday, the second day of the strike, two people were injured in clashes in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

A court ordered the government to reverse petrol price rises and the union to halt the strike.

"We have received reports that marketers have readjusted their prices down substantially," said Adams Oshiomhole, the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress.

BBC correspondents in the commercial capital, Lagos, on Thursday reported that prices were starting to be lowered at some petrol stations.

The strike was called after fuel prices rose from about 42 naira ($0.30) a litre to between 50 and 55 naira in late May.



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