NLC, TUC To Commence Nationwide Strike Midnight

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria on Monday directed their affiliates to withdraw their services nationwide from midnight on November 14, 2023.

TUC President Festus Osifo made this known while addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday.

Osifo disclosed that the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”

The strike is also to protest the battering of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and some other executives of the congress in Owerri, Imo State, on November 1, as well as the pending labor issues in Imo State.

Ajaero was arrested by the police ahead of a state-wide protest in Imo, as disclosed by the NLC’s Head of Information, Benson Upah.

Although the police denied arresting Ajaero, stating that he was merely taken into protective custody to prevent a mob attack, the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, accused the labor leader of meddling in the political affairs of the state.