Nigeria fuel subsidy strike: Protests suspended
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16544533
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The announcement comes on the fifth day of a general strike over the removal of a fuel subsidy, which has caused fuel prices and transport fares to double.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets, while several people have died in clashes with police.
A union official told the BBC the government had offered to reintroduce a small subsidy at talks on Thursday.
Nigeria Labour Congress chairman Abdul Waheed Omar said this would mean petrol would now cost 120 naira ($0.74; £0.49) a litre, down from the new price of 140 naira but still far higher than the former price of 65 naira.
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Elsewhere it's being reported that President Jonathan is simultaneously accusing the protests of being hijacked, after two of Nigeria's largest trade unions
accused the president of using armed thugs to intimidate protestors (alongside the usual heavy-handed police fare).