Nigerian workers to strike subsequent week over petrol price: unions

Nigerian unions on Saturday called for a inhabitant strike from subsequent week to criticism a 67 percent boost in a siphon cost of petrol in Africa’s largest wanton producer.

Nigeria lifted a cost of petrol to 145 naira ($0.73) per litre on Wednesday after months of fuel shortages caused by a unfamiliar sell necessity that left Africa’s biggest economy using on fumes.

The supervision keeps prices during a siphon low and pays a disproportion to fuel importers, who frequently reason a nation release by refusing to discharge fuel over delayed funding payments.

In Jan 2012, a supervision attempted to finish a fuel subsidies, causing petrol prices to some-more than double, though was forced to partially return them after tens of thousands of people took to a streets in aroused protests that left some-more than a dozen dead.

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