Directive, Embark on Strike
Laleye Dipo in Minna
Workers in Niger State on Tuesday joined their counterparts in other parts of the country to embark on a nationwide strike declared by the national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).
As a result, workers in most public institutions withdrew their services in compliance with the directive.
The gates to the state Secretariat complex, House of Assembly complex, the High Court and Sharia Court complexes, as well as the federal Secretariat were locked, making it impossible for those who wanted to transact businesses in the institutions to be stranded.
Similarly, pupils and students of public schools were asked to return home after they met the doors to their schools firmly locked.
The gates to the Minna General Hospital were also locked, making patients to seek medical care at private health institutions, but private schools did not join the strike, according to the findings.
However, the gates to the state College of Education, Minna and the Federal University of Technology also in Minna were open making it possible for students to move in and out of the institutions.
THISDAY observed that some lecturers at the two institutions were delivering lectures to students.
The state Chairman of the NLC, Idrees Lafene, told THISDAY that: “We are happy about the total compliance by our members.”
Lafene declared that the strike will continue until the government addressed “all our demands”.
