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BRAKING: Organized Labour suspend nationwide strike for just one week.


Organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, suspended their strike for five days, TVC News is reporting.

This is coming  after a six-hour meeting with the leadership of organised labor in Abuja, the Federal Government expressed the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to raising the N60,000 offered as the minimum wage.

The agreement stated, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage.”

The organised labor also agreed to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimization as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.”

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