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Wage talks collapse, strike spreads

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    Talks in central Nigeria’s Plateau State between the local government and its workers collapsed on Thursday while civil servants in two other states joined an ongoing strike sparked by a minimum-wage dispute, ‘The Guardian’ reported on Friday. Workers in the southwestern state of Oyo and Katsina in the north shut down their respective government’s activities despite a plea by the authorities to allow a skeleton staff in essential services, the daily said. The strike began 22 June and, by Monday, it had spread to around one-third of the 36 states in the country, AFP reported.

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