The Nigeria Labour Congress says its planned industrial action over the Nigerian government’s increments in pump price of Premium Motor Spirit and electricity tariff, would be total and indefinite.
The umbrella body of workers in Nigeria made this know when its Deputy President, Comrade Amaechi Asugwuni, featured on Channels Television flagship programme Politics Today on Tuesday evening in Lagos.
Asugwuni alleged that the Federal Government failed to intimate the organised labour before it hiked the prices of PMS and electricity tariff.
The NLC announced a nationwide protest over petrol, electricity price increase.
The removal of the subsidy led to an increase in electricity tariff from about N30.23 to about N62.33 per kWh.
Meanwhile, governors of the 36 states of the federation under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum will on Thursday hold an emergency virtual conference to find a solution to the looming industrial action by the Nigeria Labour Congress over the recent increase in the pump price of petrol.
This was contained in a strongly worded press statement titled “NGF Emergency Virtual Teleconference, issued by NGFs Head, Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The strike is billed for September 28.
