The Nigeria Governors’ Forum is holding an emergency meeting on Thursday to seek ways of settling the rift with the labour unions and finding a mutually agreed amicable grounds to prevent the looming industrial action.
According to the Director-General of the NGF, Asishana Okauru, all governors are expected to attend the meeting as the matter is considered to be of urgent national importance, which needs to be quickly resolved in order not to worsen the already bad situation of Nigerians as caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress had threatened to resort to an industrial action to force the Federal Government to rescind its decision to hike oil and electricity prices.
The federal government will also meet with labour at the Presidential villa same day.
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