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The Senate on Tuesday expressed displeasure at some of the excesses by members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress during the nationwide strike for a new minimum wage on Monday.
The Senate’s grouse against the alleged excesses of labour unionists during the now-suspended nationwide strike came through a motion on the strike action and new minimum wage by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Labour, Senator Diket Plang . “One of such excesses was the shutdown of the National Grid, which is more of an economic sabotage than agitation for a new minimum wage. Disruption of Hajj flights by some other labour unionists, as said by the Deputy President of the Senate, is also not palatable being a religious exercise.
“I want to thank the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress for listening to the voice of Nigerians and the international community by calling off the strike to enable negotiations to continue, and we wish them well in the negotiations. The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said it has extended the period of the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration exercise in Edo and Ondo states. This was contained in a press statement made available to newsmen in Benin, the Edo capital, on Tuesday. The statement read in part, "The Commission approved the extension of…
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