Just In: Organised Labour Suspends Nationwide Strike

By Damilare Adeleye

The Organised Labour including the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress have suspended the nationwide strike for five days.

It was learnt that the temporary suspension was to give room for uninterrupted meeting with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage.

A source with the leaders of Labour disclosed this to newsmen.

Recall that the Labour leaders had a successful meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume, and other government officials on Monday and reached a resolution that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was committed to a new minimum wage higher than N60,000.

They equally resolved that the Tripartite Committee would meet every day for the next one week with a view to arriving at an agreeable National Minimum Wage.

Today at a meeting with FG Tripartite Committee scheduled by 10am, Labour suspended its srike.

Following the suspension, every government and private office is expected to reopen and function as usual.

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