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The Nigeria Labour Congress has asked the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stop stiffening Nigeria with its policy advisories described as ‘insincere’. The NLC president disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. This comes amid a statement attributed to the IMF’s African Region Director, Abebe Selassie, during a press conference at the IMF and the World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, DC, that characterised the Nigerian government’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy as a domestic issue. However, NLC faulted the IMF for distancing itself from the policies of the Nigerian g…