The Nation Newspaper Union leaders picket airports, National Assembly govt offices
Other badly affected states were Rivers, Kwara, Enugu, Kaduna, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Anambra, Taraba, Bauchi, Adamawa, Benue and Niger.
Earlier yesterday, the Nigerian Police Force advised the unions to call off the industrial action to prevent a breakdown of law and order. International flights landed and took off at the Nnamdi Azikiwe and Murtala Mohammed International Airports in Abuja and Lagos in the early hours of Monday but those on local routes were prevented by protesting members of the National Union of Air Transport Employees . NUATE is an affiliate of the NLC.
Like United Airlines, Air Peace said it regretted the inconvenience the disruption of its local flights caused its clients. It appealed for their understanding and patience. Many passengers who rushed out in the early hours to the domestic wings of the MMIA were unable to gain entrance into the departure halls.
It added in a statement from its Public Affairs Manager, Ndidi Mbah, that the workers beat up and injured some of its officials for resisting being forced out of the control room. But NLC President President Joe Ajaero defended the decision of workers in the electricity sector to shut down the grid.
A revenue monitoring hearing by the House Committee on Finance scheduled for yesterday was called off due to the strike. At the Pharmacy unit of the Accident and Emergency Wards, Shade Omoba lamented that she made payments and had a refund because the unit had closed. “They collected money and refused to give us the drugs. If they knew they wouldn’t attend to anyone because of the strike, why did they open,” she asked.Activities at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital went smoothly yesterday with relatives of patients confirming that they were being attended to.
At the state State Secretariat, Alausa in Ikeja union leaders arrived as early as 7.30 am to prevent access to the complex. The strike, however, did not affect pupils writing the Senior School Certificate Examination as they were allowed into their school premises. But some hours later, Labour leaders arrived at the Secretariat in Agodi and directed the workers to return home.
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