A last minute effort by the federal government to prevent a workers strike has failed.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported how the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Ayuba Wabba, declared a total strike at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

The strike is to start at 12:00 midnight on Wednesday.

After the meeting, the NLC leaders attended a meeting called by the Minster of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to work out a way of averting the strike.

Mr Wabba said, at the end of the meeting with the government delegation in Abuja, that the failure of both parties to reach an agreement on the issues raised means the strike will still proceed as scheduled.

In his earlier briefing before the meeting, Mr Wabba said the strike will be total and comprehensive.

“In compliance with this mandate, all workers and private sector at all levels across the country have been directed to comply.

“All public and private institutions, offices, banks, schools, public and private business premises including filling station are to remain shut till further noticed,” he said.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the second largest labour union, TUC, had also asked its members to commence the strike.

The workers are demanding a new minimum wage of about N50,000 instead of the current national minimum wage of N18,000. Most state governors as well as proponents of true federalism have, however, argued that states should be allowed to set their own minimum wage especially as many states are barely able to pay the current N18,000 minimum wage.


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nlc died after oshiomhole regime

and so.................

Ope oo!!!

This government is not serious about anything

Okk

Nigeria get as e be at the moment. The only thing this politicians are concerned about is 2019 elections.
This APC government is as useless and clueless as it gets.
2019 will not be easy oh.

Welcome to change

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Strike wey dem go call off before them even start?

Na to buy food for house today

Thank you NLC time to call my friends we should meet at Ikorodu road express and play football or Four post... diz d only thing I enjoy strike for... express is always free to use

A lying APC govt deserve what they are getting.

Some people are already condemning the proposed strike, asking why NLC never demanded for N55,000 minimum wage during the previous administration when oil was $100 per barrel. But I want to ask these zombies, if GEJ agreed to pay N55,000 as minimum wage during his govt when crude oil price was $100, will buhari be able to maintain that salary with crude price at $70+?

Moreover, the economic climate right now under buhari's rudderless govt with high cost of food, poverty and hunger everywhere, increasing minimum wage to help ameliorate high cost of goods is natural.
Though increasing workers salary is a good idea, it will never solve the economic calamity that buhari's useless govt drove Nigeria into. It will rather increase the rate of inflation.
The only solution to this perennial quagmire is RESTRUCTURING.
LET STATES CONTROL, DEVELOP AND GENERATE THEIR OWN INCOMES AND PAY A LITTLE OF THEIR INCOME AS TAX TO THE CENTRE, INSTEAD OF GATHERING EVERY MONTH IN ABUJA FOR HANDOUTS LIKE ALMAJIRIS.

Why do I feel that the tanker drivers are to be taken more seriously (in terms of strike threats) than the NLC?

We have gotten used to the midnight intervention and resolutions.

My question is how long will this last?

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From one trouble to another, why is naija like this. God abeg save naija. We r helpless.

FGno get time for NLC now, dem dey osun dey think how to rig tomorrow's rerun

Hell fire go full with nija politicians....what is 18000 4 God sake!! Yet they steal millions

Ive PMS ltrs 45,000 on road to Kaduna. To sell or to hoard?