The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike beginning from next week Wednesday.
This is coming amid hike in fuel price across the country occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”.
NLC President, Joe Ajaero made the announcement after an emergency meeting of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja.
He said the government, particularly the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had up until Wednesday next week to revert to the old price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol.
Ajaero added that failure of the Federal Government to meet the ultimatum would attract an indefinite protest across the country.
On Wednesday, an hours-long meeting between the Federal Government and the NLC on the matter ended in a deadlock.
The NLC had since demanded that the Federal Government return to status quo by reversing the price of fuel before resuming negotiations with the organised labour.
Ajaero insisted that the Federal Government did not enter into any agreement even on palliative measures for Nigerians, hence the rejection of the announcement.
