BREAKING: NLC threatens Tinubu's govt, declares nationwide strike

  • The leadership of organised labour has announced a planned nationwide strike from next Wednesday
  • This is part of the resolutions reached at a meeting of the National Executive Council of the Congress on Friday, June 2nd, in Abuja
  • The decision to embark on strike is coming after President Bola Tinubu declared during his inaugural speech that subsidy regime has gone for good

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed the move to embark on a nationwide strike which will commence next Wednesday, June 3rd.

This development is coming amid fuel shortages across the country occasioned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone.”