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Civil service jobs cut "inevitable"

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    Nigerian Finance Minister Ismaila Usman has said job cuts in the Nigerian civil service were "inevitable", AFP reported on Thursday. Quoting a speech read out for Usman at a seminar in the eastern city of Enugu, it said that with the implementation of public sector pay rises, the current size of the workforce was "no longer sustainable". The move to cut jobs comes amid a wave of strikes by civil servants in more than two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states demanding payment of the new minimum wage. Postal and telecommunications workers are the latest group to threaten industrial action if its demands were not met by management, AFP reported.

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