Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city was on Tuesday morning, marking day 2 of the NLC and its affiliate bodies strke over minimum wage demand.
Africa Health Report AHR, observed that vehicular movements around the nation’s capital were skeletal, as few workers reported for work. On Monday the Federal Secretariate was a shadow of itself, as many civil servants complied with the strike directive. The city has been thrown into darkness over the past 24 hours as power sector workers complied with the strike. The Federal Secretariate, the workers’ hub was a ghost place as of Monday. It was observed that the Day 1 of the strike recorded total lock down across Nigeria cities.
The NLC has disclosed that the ongoing nationwide strike will continue despite the agreement signed with the Federal Government at Monday’s meeting.
The congress, in a post on X, on Tuesday said the industrial action which has grounded the nation’s economy will continue until Tuesday’s meeting of organs of the union where all resolutions of Monday’s meeting are expected to be reviewed.
“Until we hear from our organs at our meeting scheduled for today, June 4, we are still on strike,” the post read.
AHR recalls that after a six-hour meeting with the leadership of the organised labour in Abuja, the Federal Government expressed the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to raising the N60,000 offered as the minimum wage.
The agreement stated that, “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.”
These resolutions were signed on behalf of the Federal Government by Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, and Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.
Representing the organised labour were the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, and the President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo.
