Upperhill News

The industrial action called by the organised labour leaders commences at 012.00 am on Monday morning following the stalemate in the meeting called by the federal lawmakers and the executive branch to prevail on the workers’ unions to shelve the indefinite strike.

Organised labour had made some demands on the federal government including an N494,000 salary given the current economic realities in the country, reversal of the hike in electricity tariff without consulting the stakeholders as required by law to N225/kwh to N66/Kwh and the alleged apartheid categorisation of Nigerian electricity into bands.

The federal government offered N60,000 minimum wage which the workers’ unions considered insufficient given the inflation in Nigeria which peaked at 33.69 per cent in April 2024.

However, at the meeting initiated on Sunday night by the government comprising the executive and the legislature, InsideBusinessNG gathered that the labour leaders insisted they would have to meet with Congress to discuss the National Assembly leadership’s appeal to suspend the strike and allow for further dialogue.

The meeting was attended by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, Deputy President of the Senate, Jibrin Barau; Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele; House Leader, Julius Ihonvbere; and the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Labour, Employment and Productivity,  Diket Plang and Gboyega Adefarati, respectively,

Also, the representatives of the Federal Government present at the meeting included: Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite; Minister of Science and Technology,  Uche Nnaji; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris Malagi; Head of Service, Folasade Yemi-Esan.