• Friday, November 22, 2024
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NLC, TUC suspend strike, demand fixing refineries, others

The Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have agreed to suspend the planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

After hours of meeting with government representatives led by Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of House of Representatives, they agreed to suspend the strike after the government said it will review their demands.

The demands include reviewing the minimum wage, cash transfers scheme from the World Bank $800m loan, reviving the CNG project for labour centers and reviving the ailing education sector.

Other demands include rehabilitation of the nation’s refineries, fixing road and rail networks and reviewing multiple taxes on businesses — a demand submitted by the TUC.

The meeting ended at 10:40pm on Monday night.

Isaac Anyaogu is an Assistant editor and head of the energy and environment desk. He is an award-winning journalist who has written hundreds of reports on Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, energy and environmental policies, regulation and climate change impacts in Africa. He was part of a journalist team that investigated lead acid pollution by an Indian recycler in Nigeria and won the international prize - Fetisov Journalism award in 2020. Mr Anyaogu joined BusinessDay in January 2016 as a multimedia content producer on the energy desk and rose to head the desk in October 2020 after several ground breaking stories and multiple award wining stories. His reporting covers start-ups, companies and markets, financing and regulatory policies in the power sector, oil and gas, renewable energy and environmental sectors He has covered the Niger Delta crises, and corruption in NIgeria’s petroleum product imports. He left the Audit and Consulting firm, OR&C Consultants in 2015 after three years to write for BusinessDay and his background working with financial statements, audit reports and tax consulting assignments significantly benefited his reporting. Mr Anyaogu studied mass communications and Media Studies and has attended several training programmes in Ghana, South Africa and the United States

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