Lagos (Platts)--11Jun2007

Nigeria oil workers have been put on notice to join a nationwide strike
called by labor groups to protest a recent hike in fuel prices, a spokesman
for the oil unions said Monday.

     Deputy secretary general of the white collar Pengassan oil union Lumumba
Okugba said the oil workers would be joining the strike as directed by the
Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, for which the two oil
unions, Pengassan and the blue collar Nupeng, are affiliates.

     "Both the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have given
the Federal Government until June 18 to reverse the fuel price increase or
face a nationwide strike," Okugba said in Lagas.

     "Both Pengassan and Nupeng are affiliates of the two labor groups, so we
will abide by any directive to us," he added.

     Asked if the strike would affect oil production and liftings from the
world's eighth largest oil exporter, the union chief said these would be
determined by events.

     "Lets wait until June 18. What will happen to (oil) production or exports
will be determined by whether government will give any concession to the
workers' demand or not," said Okugba.

     Fuel prices were raised up by 15% by the former government of president
Olusegun Obasanjo on the eve of handing over to the new government in power on
May 29.

     Nigeria's oil production, the main stay of the country's economy, has
already been seriously impaired by violence in the main producing region of
Niger Delta where militants demanding greater control of oil wealth have been
attacking facilities and kidnapping workers.