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 | | Oshiomhole said of the Presidentâs economic reform of which he has been so critical " We are not opposed to reforms. | | | It was the fourth time the Oshiomhole leadership of the NLC would engage the federal government on increases in the prices of petroleum products. | | | But Oshiomholeâs struggles were not without a price. |
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| | LAGOS — PRESIDENT of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole yesterday in Abuja asked workers and the general public to proceed with the planned anti-fuel hike strike, from tomorrow, saying it was regrettable that government had not taken appropriate steps to address the immediate grievances of Nigerians occasioned by government’s harsh petroleum pricing policy. | | | Reflecting on the activities of Mantu Committee and the recent measures adopted by government to cushion the effect of the fuel hike, the NLC leader said government only wanted to give the impression that it is sensitive to peoples desire while it continued the implementation of the punitive measure. | | | Mr President (Obasanjo) has said that this is not possible because that will amount to derailing the deregulation policy of the government on the downstream of the oil sector. |
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| | Oshiomhole is president of the umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which ordered workers to strike until the government reversed the price increases. | | | Average income in Nigeria is around $300 a year and the issue of fuel prices in the oil-producing country has been a contentious one for years. | | | Labor leaders accuse Obasanjo of blindly following the dictates of Western creditors demanding an end to subsidies before Nigeria gets relief on its foreign debt of about $30 billion. |
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| | Addressing journalists on the outcome of the NEC-in-Session, Oshiomhole said that the price increase had "aggravated the poverty level of Nigerians." The NEC, however, expressed Labour's readiness for dialogue with the government on the issues before the expiration of the ultimatum. | | | After the last strike in June, the Federal Government set up a joint committee comprising the government, the NLC and the other stakeholders who travelled round the 36 states of the country. | | | President will neither read nor reply us if it goes to the press before it gets to him." Oshiomhole wondered why Nigerians were being exposed to harsh economic measures when the nation's foreign reserves are now estimated to be above $13 billion, while excess crude oil revenue is also in billions of dollars. |
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| | ABAKALIKIâ” PRESIDENT of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that the policies of the Federal Government, on the deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector and the imposed N1.50k fuel tax is capable of creating crisis and unleash untold hardship on the already impoverished Nigerians. | | | He regretted that in recent times, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been singing discordant tunes with the Federal Government over vital issues and warned that such development was not in the interest of our democracy. | | | Comrade Oshiomhole spoke Thursday in Abakaliki when he paid a courtesy call on the Ebonyi State Governor at the exco chambers of the state government house. |
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| | Oshiomhole's NLC has called for Nigerians to stay at home from Monday as part of a general strike to protest rising petrol prices under President Olusegun Obasanjo's ambitious programme of economic reform. | | | The NLC, which represents most of Nigeria's trade unions, is due to launch a general strike from Monday in protest against the latest in a series of increases in retail petrol and diesel prices. | | | "Mr Adams Oshiomhole had some misunderstanding with field operatives at the local terminal of Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, Abuja, as a result of which he was taken to the sub-office of the service at Asokoro," the statement said. |
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| | Nigeria's Minister of Information Chukwuemeka Chikelu says the government and a union-led committee are meeting Thursday to discuss easing the burden of high fuel prices. | | | Nigeria's labor leaders vowed to relaunch the strike if the government fails to bring down fuel prices. | | | President of the Nigeria Labor Congress Adams Oshiomhole (R) argue with police on the road leading to the Labor office during a protest rally by the congress in Abuja. |
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| | That means we need a holistic appraisal of petroleum products prices and distribution so that the country will end this vicious circle", he said. | | | Kupolukun has said the present price regime is based on $38 per barrel and that the $52 will begin in November. | | | Oshiomhole insisted that the prices must be reversed. |
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| | Comrade Oshiomhole was addressing a demonstration outside government offices in Abuja, in support of the general strike called by the NLC in protest at rising fuel prices. | | | Hundreds of protesters gathered this morning in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in front of government offices to demonstrate over at the failure of negotiations with the Government on the 15.3% increase of petrol prices and were met by a barrage of tear gas from the Nigerian authorities. | | | The federation extends the hand of solidarity to all the workers who have been forced to take general strike action in defence of their living standards and pledges its continuing support to workers struggling to uplift their situation. |
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| | Each time I had interviewed the comrade, the issues most often revolved around fuel price hike and a proposed strike. | | | The business of government is not to increase or multiply the sufferings of the people." | | | Oshiomhole: "When the country is rid of injustices. |
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| | He presented the issue of corrupt leadership in the country as associated to present Government only. | | | To start with, not only Wabara’s election was subject of litigation. | | | The point is, if Oshiomhole and NLC were bitter about the alleged financial scam, it would have being okay; after all corruption is an evil that must not be condoned by anybody. |
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| | The committee was convened to discuss how to ease the impact of a 25% fuel price rise that triggered the dispute. | | | On its part, the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) has directed all Nigerians to sit at home from Monday, October 11 in order to put pressure on government to revert to the old prices. | | | While declining to say whether he believed a renewed strike was likely, Oshiomhole said a committee government and labor leaders set up during the last strike to discuss ways of alleviating the effect of rising fuel prices on Nigerians, was failing to make serious progress. |
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| | The NLC alleges that on 9 October 2004 he was abducted by State Security Services during a protest, but the Nigerian government claims he submitted to voluntary custody. | | | Adams Oshiomhole is the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress and a major figure in Nigerian politics, often regarded as the unofficial leader of the opposition in that country. | | | Previously considered an ally of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Oshiomhole negotiated a public sector wage increase of 25 per cent, and later endorsed Obasanjo in the presidential election of 2003. |
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| | In the Anambra matter in particular, Oshiomhole is an interested party for the simple reason that he is a known crony of the presidency which professes the political solution option. | | | Oshiomhole is aware that there is an on-going move by a section of the political establishment, to settle the matter amicably; in spite of the insistence by a majority of Nigerians that due (legal and constitutional) process should be followed. | | | Does what Oshiomhole was reported as saying while opening a three-day conference of the National Union of Government and Tailoring Workers Union of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) earlier in the week represent an official position of the NLC? |
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| | To the vast majority of Nigerians, Adams Oshiomhole represents the voice that their elected representatives, whether in the various State Government Houses, the states Houses of Assembly or the National Assembly are not voicing. | | | Social commentators may vary in their opinions but one believes it is because of the public perception of government - present and succeeding ones, as well as of what "President" Adams represents. | | | "President" Adams Oshiomhole rather than President Obasanjo is the one on whose shoulders the burden lie to resolve the current National Lingering Crisis. |
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| | Oshiomhole commended the Bayelsa State Government for giving priority to workers' welfare, and the implementation of the 3,500 Naira minimum wage and called on civil servants in the state to reciprocate government's gesture by enhancing their productivity. | | | THE Federal Government is to approve a new minimum age for workers in the country this year, the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Mr. | | | He pointed out that Nigerian workers deserved increased pay in view of their enormous contributions towards the socio-economic development of the nation The labour leader expressed the determination of the NLC to improve on workers' welfare and enhance productivity. |
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| | Workers and pensioners at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund where Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is the Chairman of the Management Board are the worst paid in Nigeria compared to their counterparts in the financial industry where they belong. | | | Nwanekwu as he rightly observed in a national tabloid recently that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the NLC President and his cohorts were carrying out a game plan on the national strike embarked upon as a consequence of the price increases in petroleum products. | | | NUBIFIE and ASSBIFE have been castrated during the tenure of Oshiomhole. |
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| | The Nigerian Village Square - NLC: Obasanjo arrests Oshiomhole before general strike |
| | Fani-Kayode said "the government wants to state categorically that it does not have Oshiomhole in its custody as this is a democratically elected government and will not do anything that will not be in line with democracy and good governance." | | | However, the congress called on the Federal Government to order the immediate and unconditional release of Oshiomhole and Mr. | | | Adams Oshiomhole had misunderstanding with Field Operatives at the local terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, as a result of which he was taken to the sub-office of the service in Asokoro. |
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| | Obasanjo absent at May Day rally⢠Receives bashing from NLC, TUC - OnlineNigeria.com |
| | Oshiomhole called on the government to open a probe against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, following its decision to write off the N78billion owed it by some banks in the country. | | | Oshiomhole warned the Federal Government during a rally to mark the 2005 May Day celebration in Port Harcourt of the dangers of starving the local government of funds. | | | Blog It It was bashing all the way for the Federal Government as the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Adams Oshiomhole criticised President Olusegun Obasanjo over his refusal to release local government funds to Lagos State. |
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| | As chairman of the governing board of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund Scheme (NSITF), Oshiomhole has brought credibility into the organization, restored public confidence in its affairs and rekindled the hope of the Nigerian workers in the ability of the scheme to live to expectation. | | | Pat Utomi of the Lagos Business School could not help but to concure to some of his analysis of the problem and possible solutions to the nation economic malaise. | | | There is no doubt that at 50 Adams Oshiomhole has increasingly become one Nigerian that can be described as a member of the country's first eleven team in terms of individual contribution to the development of the Nigerian project. |
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| | Independentng.com homepage - Home of Independent Newspapers Nigeria LimitedNATIONAL STRIKE FALLOUT: FG threatens 1,000 ... |
| | Indeed, one of them, Labour and Productivity Minister Hassan Lawan, in the wake of the 14-day ultimatum preceding the strike, accused the NLC of “derailing from its original mandate and losing focus” and then dismissed the strike as a “total failure, as Nigerians ignored the call by the Labour body and went about their businesses”. | | | The government cannot be insensitive and irrational”, Oshiomhole stated. | | | Oshiomhole pledged that the body will not join issues with the government but hopes that the understanding of Labour in the interest of the suffering people should not be taken by the government as a sign of weakness. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business Nigerian fuel strike to go ahead |
| | "The general strike scheduled to commence on Tuesday proceeds as planned nationwide by various organisations of Nigerian people," said Adams Oshiomhole, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress. | | | Unions have vowed to plough ahead with a nationwide strike, warning that the disruption will continue until the government reverses the earlier prices rises. |
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| | Victor Ahiuma-Young, Govt Might Ignore Wishes of Nigerians -Oshiomhole |
| | What is therefore required is a unity of purpose, clear direction, a transparent and purposeful consultation with the people. | | | Abuja—President of Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said that going by government antecedent of deceits in the last sixteen years, President Obasanjo's government might not respect Nigerians' verdict in the on-going constitutional review exercise. | | | Comrade Oshiomhole called for an aggressive enlightenment and mass debated programmes involving trade unions, market associations, professional bodies, community development associations, youths, students bodies, NGOs, other civil society groups as well as governments. |
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| | Vanguard - National News : Masari, Oshiomhole, PENGASSAN president task FG on anti-corruption crusade |
| | Speaker Masari advised that for government to be able to fight the endemic corruption, basic necessity of life like shelter, gainful employment, affordable and qualitative healthcare services among others must be available. | | | Masari, Oshiomhole, PENGASSAN president task FG on anti-corruption crusade | | | Vanguard - National News : Masari, Oshiomhole, PENGASSAN president task FG on anti-corruption crusade |
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| | As an indication of Nigerian workers' anger at the increases, the third this year and the seventh since the present administration assumed office in 1999, Oshiomhole also called on all workers to boycott government activities to mark this year's independence anniversary on 1 October if government had not reverted to the old prices by then. | | | NLC President Adams Oshiomhole handed down the ultimatum after a meeting of the decision-making National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Congress in Abuja. | | | Oshiomhole said if the government failed to heed labour's warning "we will call on Nigerians to begin a stay-at-home protest from October 11, until the decision is heeded." "We are unanimous and committed to this decision. |
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| | Their relationship was so cordial, the BBC's Sola Odunfa in Lagos says, that the newly installed government and the 29-union umbrella body soon negotiated a 25% wage increase for public sector workers. | | | Their main falling-out is over the government's determination to drastically cut fuel price subsidies as part of attempts to deregulate the oil industry. | | | There is little doubt, says our reporter, that Adams Oshiomhole has proved that he has the trust and the confidence of Nigerian workers. |
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| | Babalola said the Federal Government was not willing to ask for cost from the defendant (NLC and Oshiomhole). | | | This, according to him, is to ensure that the design of government to use this judgment to "checkmate anticipated protest against the planned increases in pump prices of petroleum products billed for December 1, 2004. | | | She held that "consequently, where the NLC or Oshiomhole acts to call workers out on strike, they act outside the provisions of Section 34 (1) and incur the penalty imposed by Section 33 (2) and (3) of the Trade Unions Act Cap 437. |
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| | Moreover, it will be extremely difficult to rig such a party rested on the masses in election without a popular revolt. | | | Among the vexatious areas of the law is the fascist provision that makes it illegal for workers in the so-called essential services which include education, health, electricity, air traffic control and aviation, communication and water services, to go on strike. | | | The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) should resume the campaign it commenced when the bill was before the National Assembly and later suspended out of illusion in the legislatures. |
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Nigerian fuel strike takes hold |
| | But he added that the strike would only end if the recent 25% hike in petrol prices is reversed. | | | Mr Oshiomhole said he was picked up by state security service operatives on the tarmac of the domestic airport, as he was about to board a plane. | | | Mr Oshiomhole said after four days, the action would be suspended to give the government the opportunity to change its position and start talking to the unions. |
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| | Labour had said on Tuesday that its compliance with the order depended on the marketers obeying its side of the ruling. | | | Oshiomhole also said that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the NLC, which was the only body that could call off the strike, would be immediately convened. | | | Funso Kupolokun, Oshiomhole said that the strike would continue since the marketers were yet to revert to the old prices. |
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| | Africa News Service : OSHIOMHOLE, KUKAH TASK NIGERIANS ON NATIONALISM @ HighBeam Research |
| | Africa News Service : OSHIOMHOLE, KUKAH TASK NIGERIANS ON NATIONALISM @ HighBeam Research | | | Nigerians to use the general election beginning this Saturday to elect | | | Read 'Africa News Service: OSHIOMHOLE, KUKAH TASK NIGERIANS ON NATIONALISM' with a FREE Trial for instant access » |
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| | In total, they gather around 4 million members, according to their own figures. | | | The same month Adams Oshiomhole was elected President of the reformed organisation. | | | The strike threat was made despite the fact that a Federal High Court judgement in an earlier despute had declared the organisation lacking legal power to call a general strike over government policies. |
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| | NLC seeks lower prices instead of higher pay | | | But Oshiomhole may become the last president of the NLC if the trade union bill now before the legislature becomes law. | | | Union leaders have alleged that the real motive behind the new bill is to emasculate the NLC and other trade unions that have consistently opposed government policies on the grounds that they are inimical to the interests of workers. |
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| | Three people from the same Anambra state contested and won elections into the Senate as declared by INEC and they were substituted by those that did not even contest the elections. | | | Oshiomhole could do himself a world of good by coming out to identify with Obasanjo and his policies — be they pro or anti people. | | | He stated this at the parley organized by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) which incidentally Adams Oshiomhole is the national president. |
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| | Oshiomhole said it was shocking that the Senate went ahead to pass the new bill into law when NLC and other stakeholders who were invited to a public hearing on the bill this week were yet to make any appearances. | | | Oshiomhole said NLC is not opposed to any review of the ICPC but it was in the interest of the Senate to reverse itself in the collective interest of its own image and individual senators and the nation. | | | Clifford Ohiagu vowed to ensure that the House stopped the new Independent Corrupt Practice Commission (ICPC) law passed by the Senate. |
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| | There are fears that the federal government might introduce new petroleum prices in spite of the crisis the country went through recently. | | | Indeed, it is hard to like Oshiomhole, especially when you are the government man on the top job, which, honestly, makes him a reporter's delight. | | | This is a statement of fact: you cannot be lndifferent to Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC. |
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| | After the exercise, Oshiomhole told journalists that he was disappointed with the government's failure to enforce the court order. | | | A unit of anti-riot policemen was, however, left to man the major entrance to the NLC building while plainclothes security operatives were also placed on surveillance. | | | Oshiomhole later went into town to check if fuel marketers had adjusted the prices to N38. |
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| | Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria's main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is missing. | | | BBC News Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria's main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is missing. | | | BBC News Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria's main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has been free... |
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| | Adams Oshiomhole, president of the Nigeria Labor Congress, was picked up as he waited at the international airport in the capital, Abuja, for a flight to a southern city, said a statement from the association, which represents 29 unions. | | | Nigeria's Information Minister Chukwuemeka Chikelu confirmed that Oshiomhole was detained, but he said he was released. | | | Fuel prices rose by nearly 20 percent last month, the latest in a series of hikes as Nigeria's government cuts subsidies in a bid to deregulate the fuel market. |
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| | He stated that members of his group have already mobilised throughout Delta State to ensure that banks and other financial institutions in the state are not intimidated into closing business by the NLC. | | | An order restraining the appellants and respondents (Nigerian Labour Congress and Adams Oshiomhole), their officers, privies, associates, and any person, however, described from continuing their acts of contempt by disobeying the order of the Federal High Court delivered on Tuesday 21 September 2004 which is now the subject of appeal before this court; | | | She, however, later washed her hands off the government Vs NLC tango, refusing to either stop Labour from going on strike or the government from increasing the prices of petroleum products. |
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| | Having failed in its several bids to consign organised labour to the dustbin of history, through blackmail and intimidation of its leaders, the Obasanjo government recently woke up one morning and dusted up a Trade Union Bill, of which the principal aim is to put a knife through the thread which binds labour. | | | Despite the barrage of criticisms and assault against him by the state and agents of the state, Adams has remained undaunted in his crusade to ensure a better life for the people, in the same way the government has also remained resolute in its bid to clip Oshiomhole and labour& wings. | | | He has in the past been lampooned and called several names by both the government he opposes and even some Nigerians he believes he is fighting their cause. |
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| | The SSS claimed Oshiomhole had been released, but the NLC secretariat reported that he had not been seen. | | | Adams Oshiomhole, Nigeria Labour Congress President, has confirmed that the general strike against the latest fuel price hike is starting today and will be total. | | | Oshiomhole has already said that the strike would not exclude the possibility of dialogue with the Federal Government. |
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| | Adams Oshiomhole is a former member of the ITGLWF Executive Committee. | | | The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation is an International Trade Secretariat bringing together 225 affiliated organisations in 110 countries with a combined membership of 10 million workers. | | | In a letter to President Olesegun Obasanjo, the Brussels-based International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) said that as a member of the International Labour Organisation, Nigeria had an obligation to respect ILO Conventions which guarantee the right of workers and their organisations to strike in defence of their interests. |
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| | Adams Oshiomhole, leader of the Nigeria Labor Congress that is spearheading the strike to protest rising fuel prices, said it could be extended if serious violence breaks out, if more union leaders are arrested or if the government refuses to discuss a decrease in fuel prices. | | | The general strike, which began Monday, was supposed to last four days and resume again in two weeks if the government does not reverse fuel price hikes. |
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| | But when the issue of an increase in petrol prices came up, Adams became a strong critic of the administration. | | | A sceptical government believed that workers would not head his strike call and President Olusegun Obasanjo announced that the price rise was irreversible. | | | Once again Adams Oshiomhole has proved that he has the trust and the confidence of Nigerian workers. |
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| | Adams Oshiomhole, at a press conference held at the Labour House in Abuja, said that the workers' umbrella body had no choice but to begin the action since the government was apparently not ready to accede to the demand. | | | Looking pale and worn-out, the Labour leader who was arrested on Saturday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, by the men of the State Security Service (SSS), urged Nigerians to "stay at home to mourn their helplessness in the hands of a government which they voted into power some months back." | | | Narrating his ordeal, Oshiomhole said he was kept in the SSS custody from 8:30 a.m. |
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| | ABC News: Nigerian Authorities Free Top Labor Leader |
| | Adams Oshiomhole, President of the Nigeria Labor Congress, who announced that Labor will begin its strike on Monday, was detained by security forces at the Abuja airport Saturday and released Sunday. | | | Oshiomhole said he was held most of Saturday and released in the evening, after which he went to a hospital for treatment of bruises sustained during the detention. | | | Nigerians read copies of local newspapers at a news stand a day before the Nigeria Labor Congress plans to stage a general strike against rising fuel prices in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004. |
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