By David Kabiyesi
Defence Headquarters has given a directive to all Armed Forces in Nigeria to be prepared for any likelihood of imminent nationwide strike, iwitnesslive.com can report.
According to @DefenceInfoNG, the army have been ordered told to stop any gathering or protest that is aimed at bringing the country’s economy to a massive halt.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has put plans in place for a nationwide strike scheduled to begin August 2,2023.
Though a court order which barred the congress from going on strike in June still stands, our correspondent learnt that the congress noted that it could not fold its arms while Nigerians continued to suffer the effects of subsidy removal which has led to untold hardship.
The Tinubu administration dragged the organised labour to court earlier in June to prevent a nationwide strike following the initial removal of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol.
Though the government set up a committee to liaise with the organised labour, officials of the Trade Union Congress and the NLC said the committee had failed to engage labour in a dialogue.
All pleas by President Bola Tinubu on the need to give federal government more time to treat all the pending issues have fell on deaf ears.
