Subsidy: Tinubu's FG, NLC dialogue ends in deadlock

  • The meeting between the federal government and the NLC has again ended without a reasonable conclusion
  • The minister of labour and employment, Simon Lalong, met with the leaders of the NLC on Monday, Sepetmber 18 but they closed the talks without meeting the union’s key demands
  • President Bola Tinubu’s negotiation team will however meet with the sister union of the NLC, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) afterwards

FCT, Abuja – The meeting between the federal government headed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to avert an imminent strike action ended without a concrete resolution to the union’s demands.

The minister of labour and employment, Simon Lalong; and minister of state for labour and employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, met with the NLC president, Joe Ajaero, and other leaders in Abuja on Monday, September 18, in an effort to stop organised labour from embarking on another industrial action.