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B-NLC Issues Guidelines on Fuel Strike: Who Will Blink First, Obasanjo or Oshiomhole?
The BiafraNigeria Labour Congress (B-NLC)
yesterday issued mobilisation guidelines to 36 state chapters and Abuja in a move to step up campaign for the strike
in protest against the new fuel price regime announced last month by the Federal Government. The strike is expected
to commence on October 11. THISDAY gathered last night that the leadership of the state councils have been ordered
to firm up a coalition committee with the civil society organisations in each of the states. The committee, according
to B-NLC sources, should take over the planning and co-ordination of the mobilisation. The committee is also expected
to ensure compliance with the directives of the national committee of the labour and civil society coalition whose
acting leader is Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti. Other responsibility assigned to the committee include the convocation
of stakeholders meeting before the end of this week to work out modalities for the enforcement of the sit-at-home
protest. The national secretariat had also requested the chairman and secretary of each of the 36 states and Abuja
to forward to it details of the stakeholders meeting within 48 hours. "The active participation of the state
is very important. The national secretariat is keenly monitoring the development. The guideline is expected to
check their excesses and ensure full participation in the decision of national executive council. The leadership
has also decided to scrutinise the decisions reached at such meetings, and possibly assist them to cover the loophole
where necessary," the source said. 
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 The police in
Enugu State now have a reason to believe the saying that appearances are often deceptive, as they found a young
man who had been walking the streets for four months, dressed like a lady. The reason Joseph Edeh has been doing
this is still unclear to the police, who said they were investigating to see if he had any criminal motive.
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 President Olusegun Obasanjo
is keeping open, for as long as necessary, channels of communication he opened last week with the Ijaw warlord,
Mujahid Dokubo Asari, according to indications weekend. The president and Asari met for three days last week which
led to a cease-fire in the Niger Delta. This came just as the Presidency expressed disappointment...
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