{"id":180063,"date":"2024-09-06T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fuel-pump-price-pressure-mounts-for-immediate-reversal\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:05:05","slug":"nigeria-fuel-pump-price-pressure-mounts-for-immediate-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fuel-pump-price-pressure-mounts-for-immediate-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fuel Pump Price&#8230; Pressure Mounts for Immediate Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">More organisations and individuals have warned about the severe impact of the latest fuel price increase on businesses and households.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">On Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/fuel-crisis-labour-demands-immediate-reversal-of-new-pump-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)<\/a> called for an outright reversal of the full price increase, blaming the president for reneging on a pact agreed to between the government and Labour during the national minimum wage negotiation during which Labour accepted a reduced minimum wage figure of N70,000 in return for retaining the price of fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Yesterday, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060641.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More organisations and individuals have warned about the severe impact of the latest fuel price increase on businesses and households. On Tuesday, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called for an outright reversal of the full price increase, blaming the president for reneging on a pact agreed to between the government and Labour during the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7570,21241,257,4687,393,15578,8689,23762,37654,254],"class_list":["post-180063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fuel","tag-mounts","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pressure","tag-price","tag-pump","tag-reversal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}