The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for a two-day warning strike over the effect of petrol subsidy removal on Nigerians. According to the NLC, the strike will commence on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will begin a protest against what it called the government’s inability to appropriately mitigate the impacts of the elimination of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit, more commonly known as petrol.
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The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the declaration on Friday during a press conference at the Labour House in Abuja, while speaking on resolutions by the NLC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting the previous day.
The labour congress organized a countrywide demonstration earlier in August against what it deemed to be “anti-poor” measures taken by the Bola Tinubu administration against Nigerians.
On May 29, 2023, the subsidy was eliminated, by President Tinubu during his inauguration speech, raising the cost of PMS to N610 per liter. Cost of living eventually increased as a result of the fuel price increase.
Although the Tinubu administration set up committees to plan out the rollout of palliatives for workers, the labour congress noted that the committee had yet to come up with the plans.
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SOURCE: Ripplesng
