The Crisis of Pricing Petroleum Products in Nigeria.
A critical and comparative study of Nigerian workers resistance against petroleum products’ price increases in 1988 and 2000.

Authored by Comrade Issa Aremu, mni.

ISBN: 978 023 140 4

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Contents
  • Conceptual framework.
  • The petroleum industry in perspective.
  • Understanding the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
  • Petroleum Products’ price increases and Labour’s response.
  • Beyound Price increases and Labour reaction.
  • Issues arising from 1988 and 2000 strikes.
About the Author

Issa Aremu is currently the Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garments and Tailoring Workers’ Union (NUTGTWN). He was the Head of Economics and Research Department of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) during the 1988 struggle against fuel ‘subsidy ‘ removal. He was also an active participant during the June 2000 Labour resistance against fuel price increase and a member of NLC negotiating team with the Federal Government.

Issa Aremu holds a Masters Degree in Labour and Development from the Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands. He started his union activism in the student’s movement in the late 1970s. In 1989, Issa Aremu joined NUTGTWN as an Organizing Secretary in charge of Education/Research Department. He is an active commentator on social, labour and economic issues and he is well published