Fuel Subsidy: NLC To Begin Nationwide Strike Wednesday
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will begin a nationwide strike on Wednesday next week.
The congress said that the strike action would be implemented if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited fails to reverse the new pump price for the Premium Motor Spirit.
The NLC took the decision at the end of the emergency National Executive Council meeting which took place in Abuja on Friday.
Recall that the President, Bola Tinubu, during his inaugural speech on Monday, May 29, 2023, announced the removal of fuel subsidy. “Subsidy is gone,” he had said.
Although the President’s image makers in statements issued by the state house insisted that the new president was misquoted by some sections of the media.
As a result of Tinubu’s declaration, there was an increase in panic buying with some filling stations across the country pegging the pump price of petrol to as high as N600 per litre.
On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the NNPCL announced new pump prices according to states.
