Fuel price hike: NLC calls emergency meeting to review strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress has called an emergency meeting of its organs – the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee – for Sunday (today) to deliberate on the ongoing strike and the way forward.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said on Saturday that the major organs of the congress would meet to appraise the indefinite strike called to protest the recent increase in the fuel pump price from N86 to N86.50k to N145.
Ozo-Eson said that the decision to call the meeting was not as a result of the peace parley between chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, led by its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the leaders of the organised labour at the Labour House on Friday.
Tinubu and Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State had appealed to the NLC under the leadership of Mr. Ayuba Wabba to call off the current strike in the interest of the country.
The NLC scribe said that the Federal Government had not contacted the congress for talks after the meeting of the delegation from the APC with the NLC.
He said, “There has been no such move and no communication from them (the government).
It is normal that we called a meeting to look at where we are and at what is happening. We will put all the facts on the table and discuss.