BEVERLY HILLS, September 27, (THEWILL) – Nigerian labour unions have cancelled their proposed strike to protest the removal of subsidy on petroleum products as well as increase in electricity tariff after they reached a deal with the federal government that okays the cut off of the subsidy but delays the electricity tariff increase for two weeks pending further reviews and negotiations.
According to the Minister of State for Labour and activist, Festus Keyamo, SAN, who tweeted the development, the deal was agreed to at 2.53am local time and accepts government’s move to roll out palliatives for workers while a joint committee headed by himself will examine the justification for the tariff increment.
“Strike suspended,” he tweeted.
THEWILL reports that the labour unions in Nigeria had mobilised and called a countrywide strike for Monday, September 28, 2020.
