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15 July, 2005
Nigerian Labour Congress President Adams Oshiomhole was arrested 9 October at gunpoint by the country’s secret police. The arrest came on the eve of today’s mass general strike called by the NLC that ICEM affiliates NUPENG and PENGASSAN are supporting. The strike is over the government’s 15% October petrol price hike. The NLC has become the leader of mass dissent among Nigeria’s population over government’s failed social and petroleum policies. In September, a federal court in Abuja ruled that the position of NLC president does not exist under law and the labour federation has no power to call a strike.