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Title:The army and the trade unions in Nigerian politics
Author:Cohen, R.ISNI
Year:1969
Periodical:Civilisations
Volume:19
Issue:2
Pages:226-230
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:defence
trade unions
Abstract:In the welter of regional and ethnic claims few interest groups or institutions in Nigeria could claim a national base. Only the army and the trade unions stood out and in retrospect it seems inevitable that both the army and the trade unions should have become a focus for political discontent. The trade unions demonstrated their organised strength in June 1964 with a two weeks general strike under a Joint Action Committee. The army seized power in 1966. In Kay 1967 the civil war broke out. Where did the trade unions stand in this conflict? The trade unions gave strong support to the military leaders on both sides. By briefly characterising the nature of the five union centres existing in Nigeria (U.L.C., N.W.C., N.T.U.C., L.U.F.-N.F.L., B.T.U.C.) is explained why the trade unions joined the battle. Ref.
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