FG urges labour to avert strike, promises to honour commitments

In a bid to stave off looming industrial action, the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has made a fervent appeal to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to reconsider their plans for a nationwide strike.

Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, emphasized that it is not in the government’s interest for labour to disrupt operations through strikes.

The call comes in the wake of a 14-day ultimatum issued by organized labour over the prevailing hardships faced by Nigerians. Minister Idris reiterated the government’s commitment to fulfilling its obligations to workers, assuring that promises made will be honored without fail.

The minister sai: “Well, we appeal to labour to always see reason with the government. It is not in the government’s interest for the labour to continue to go on strike.

“I think the government keeps its promises. If there are other things that they (NLC, TUC) think they are concerned about, I think that they will sit down with the government and the government is ever ready to listen to labour so that we can have an amicable resolution to all these.

“We appeal with labour, let them come again, around the table to continue to have engagements and conversations around whatever grey areas they think they have in some of these agreements that have already been signed.”