BREAKING: Fuel Price Hike: Nigerian labour leaders walk out of meeting with govt, vow indefinite strike

Nigerian labour leaders have walked
out of a meeting with the government,
saying they are mobilising their
members for an indefinite strike from
Wednesday, in protest of an increase
in petrol price.
The meeting with the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation,
Babachir Lawal, and other officials of
government was convened in an
attempt to broker a last minute truce
on the matter.
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC,
had condemned the government’s
decision to increase petrol price from
N86.50 to N145 per litre, and vowed to
resist the policy.
The Trade Union Congress had also
threatened strike, but pulled out of the
plan on Tuesday night, the News
Agency of Nigeria reported.
The General Secretary of the NLC,
Peter Ozo-Eson, had earlier told
PREMIUM TIMES that from all
indications the strike would go on as
planned.
“It is clear the strike will go ahead as
planned,” Mr. Ozo-Eson said ahead of
the meeting with the government.
The strike is coming despite an order
of the National Industrial Court
restraining labour from going ahead
with the threat.
The Attorney General and Minister of
Justice, Abubakar Malami, had earlier
on Tuesday approached the Industrial
Court on behalf of federal government
to stop the strike.
The General Executive Secretary of
Medical and Health Workers Union,
north central, Richard Gbamwuan, also
told this newspaper shortly after an
emergency NEC meeting of the NLC
held in Abuja on Tuesday, that they
were going ahead with the proposed
strike.