According to Dr. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, the Nigerian Labour Congress‘s scheduled countrywide strike would not take place as planned.
Ngige stated that the National Executive Committee of the NLC would focus on the implementation of many actions by the Central Bank to provide funds nationally to ease the hardship caused by the country’s protracted cash shortage on Tuesday at its meeting. The meeting was held at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja and was hosted by the Presidential Communications Team.
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Ngige and Dr. Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, conferred with the NLC’s leadership on Monday in an effort to stop the scheduled nationwide strike for March 29.
If the federal government did not handle the ongoing cash crisis, gasoline scarcity, and power tariff increase, the NLC had vowed to start a national strike.
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Ngige, however, summoned the CBN management and the trade union leadership to a meeting at his Abuja office on Monday in an attempt to settle their differences and prevent the planned walkout.
In remarks made on Tuesday, the Minister of Labor said “At this moment we are no longer talking about whether or not to go on strike. We are only discussing the implementation of the CBN’s response to the whole situation.
“Today, Tuesday March 28, the National Economic Committee of the labour union from states and local government areas will report to the national leadership. And I am positive that they will not continue with the strike planned for Wednesday.
“We have apprehended the dispute and when the minister apprehends a dispute, the next line of action is to maintain status quo antebellum”, Ngige said.
