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Nigeria’s two largest unions, the National Labor Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have accused the government of failing to ease the financial burden on Nigerians and called for an indefinite strike to begin next Tuesday.
Unions said the industrial action was a protest to the government’s response to the rising cost of living.
“It’s going to be a total shutdown until government meets the demand of Nigerian workers, and in fact Nigerian masses,” the union leaders said in a joint statement.
They called on all workers to stop activities from Tuesday 3 October and said they would organise street protests.
The government had appealed to the union leaders to suspend the strike and allow room for negotiations citing the impending damage the strike action could cause the economy.
