Govt offices in Abuja, others shut as NLC 2-days strike begins

According to Gistlover, some government ministries, departments, and offices in Abuja are currently closed in support of the two-day nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress.

Our correspondent observed that the Federal Secretariat and other significant locations, including the well-known radio building, which houses some agencies under the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, were deserted on Tuesday morning because employees had chosen to remain at home.

Banks in the surveyed areas were also secured.

When our correspondent visited one of the big commercial banks at the Federal Secretariat, he was informed that there would be no banking activities because of the NLC’s declared strike.

According to The PUNCH, the NLC announced its decision on Friday in a statement that was jointly signed by its national president Joe Ajaero and secretary Emmanuel Ugboaja. The NLC stated that it made the decision because the Tinubu-led Federal Government had not engaged in dialogue with stakeholders in organized labor regarding efforts to mitigate the effects of the removal of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit, more commonly known as gasoline, on the “poor masses.”

Already, in August, organized labor organized a one-day protest that shut down business in the nation’s major cities.

The National Union of Road Transport Workers national headquarters was under police guard, the Imo state government allegedly violated workers’ rights, the Abia State government meddled in trade union affairs, and Nyesom Wike, the new minister of the Federal Capital Territory, proposed demolishing the building, among other things, according to the center, which listed these and other reasons why it would organize its members for a nationwide shutdown.