NLC, TUC halt strike for five days

According to an NLC leader who spoke with our correspondent in Abuja, members of organised labour, which includes the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, decided to call off their strike on Tuesday for a period of five days. 

Not long before talks with the government start, the centres are supposed to release a statement. 

The strike, which got underway on Monday, was organised in protest of the federal government's inability to reverse the increase in electricity rates and to adopt a new minimum wage by May 31.

According to The PUNCH, President Bola Tinubu's pledge to increasing the N60,000 minimum salary was conveyed by the Federal Government following a six-hour meeting with the leaders of organised labour in Abuja on Monday night.

The agreement stated, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage.”

The organised labour also agreed to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimisation as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.”

The federal government's representatives, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Nkeiruka Onyejeocha and Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris, signed these resolutions.

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