The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria on Monday ordered their affiliates to withdraw their services nationwide from midnight on November 14, 2023.
While addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, the TUC President Festus Osifo disclosed that the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”
The strike is also to protest the battering of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and some other executives of the congress in Owerri, Imo State, on November 1.
Ajaero lamented that the police after arresting him ahead of a state-wide protest in Imo, handed him over to thugs.
Contrary to the police statement, which stated that he was merely taken into protective custody to prevent a mob attack, the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, accused the labour leader of meddling in the political affairs of the state.