Through the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), Nigerian banks have decided to join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) or the two-day planned strike action.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by Mohammed I Sheikh, general secretary of the union, which said all banks would shut down on Tuesday, the 5th and Wednesday 6th of September 2023.
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However, the Federal Government on Monday pleaded with the NLC to call off its two-day warning strike, which is to commence on Tuesday.
The government said the reason for calling for suspending the strike action was to forestall a breakdown of peace, which it said would hurt the gains it had already made.
