Nigeria Labor Congress Ends Strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have ended their industrial action due to a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and an electricity tariff hike for one week.

The TUC president Festus Osifo confirmed this in Abuja on Tuesday after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions.

“A joint NEC meeting of TUC/NLC has approved the relaxation of the industrial action for one week with immediate effect,” Osifo disclosed in an interview.

A communique will be issued shortly, the labor chief said.

Both unions downed tools on Monday to register their grievances over the hike in electricity tariff and lack of consensus on a new minimum wage.

The development ground activities in critical sectors of the economy with schools, businesses, hospitals, and airports shut. The national grid was also shut down, throwing the nation into darkness.