They threaten to stop crude production

The general in Nigeria strike will continue after suspend negotiations between Union leaders and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday Thursday, announced a Trade Union. leader

"We have not yet concluded talks, but they have been successful." We must continue on Saturday afternoon. "We maintain the status quo until the end of the discussions," declared to the press the President of the Labour Congress of Nigeria, Abdulwahed Omar, on the fourth day of the general strike against the rising prices of fuel

Yesterday, a trade union representing 20,000 workers in the sector of oil and gas in Nigeria threatened Thursday to paralyse the entire production from Sunday as part of a national strike to protest rising fuel and that has paralyzed a vital country for oil supplies from United States.

The strike began Monday after the Nigerian Government to repeal a created grant makes two u000adecades that fuel prices remained low for users Nigerians.

The negative reaction caused by the measure caused demonstrations throughout the country and the violence that has caused 10 deaths.

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A statement issued yesterday by the Association of workers of oil and Gas of Nigeria said that if the Government does not replenished the grant, the Union "is forced to it and adopt the bitter alternative of ordering the systematic closure of the production of oil and gas natural.

Reference crude ascended yesterday Thursday 1.03 $ 101.90 dollars per barrel in electronic contracting in the stock exchange of raw materials in New York City, for fear of a decline in the global supply. Nigeria is the fifth exporter of crude oil to United States.

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