At a meeting held in Abuja today, NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said if the government failed to revert to the old price and stop the deregulation of the oil sector by midnight of Tuesday May 17th, the workers would have no option than to embark on a total strike by Wednesday May 18th.
“Since there has not been any increase in salaries, wages or pensions of workers in the past five years, and in the face of devaluations, spiraling inflation and other vagaries of the economy, the increase in fuel price is unrealistic, unaffordable, unacceptable, and is thus rejected. It is evident that the neo-liberal forces in the government have taken over, and we should expect more inhumane policies which will further degrade the living standard of the average Nigerian. The punitive electricity tariff and PMS product prices may just be teasers. The price hike from N86:50 to N145, representing 67.63% increase, is the height of insensitivity and impunity as there was no previous consultation with stake holders, especially the organized labour, or any justification for this reckless decision other than the fact that government believes it is accountable to no one"he said
Oga Buhari should just increase the minimum wage.
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It takes an intelligent person to understand that the increase in fuel price is for the good of Nigerians because this hardship is just temporary as the price will drop drastically very soon and Nigerians will smile again. The fed govt has also been able to remove the control of the oil sector from the hands of a few greedy Nigerians called cabal. Let me ask NLC one question; If the fed govt increase your salary now, Will you agree for your salaries to be reduced after the fuel price drops? If u can answer this question, then u can go ahead. Thx
DeleteGood talk
ReplyDeleteI beg make una take am easy oooooo.
ReplyDeleteWe will surely be the once to benefit from these policies in the long run,Nigerians are just Impatient gaskiyan magana!
ReplyDelete~glo rule your world~ cos I do•
Wahala dey
ReplyDeleteNigeria jaga jaga, everything scatter scatter.
ReplyDeleteALL BLAME AND THANKS GOES TO BUHARI THE MASSIVE FAILURE.
Wrong time for this strike! Where were they when we were buying fuel at 300 naira per liter? NLC and TUC did not call for strike when many of us could not go to work as a result of fuel scarcity. This declared strike is belated. It has its hidden agenda.
ReplyDeleteIf they are striking, they should wait for me to enter camp on Saturday first, then, they can strike... Ndi ngbu
ReplyDeleteBuhari.....a name on every man's tongue in naija..
ReplyDeleteYou are not representing Nigerian! You are simply insensitive thiefs.
ReplyDeleteSupported!
ReplyDeleteI support
ReplyDeleteOk cool
ReplyDeleteSh*t! Why wait till 18th when u guys can strike like.......on monday?
ReplyDeleteAbegi! Dey are only concerned about their pockets. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteLet the battle begin!
ReplyDeleteOya let the strike start
ReplyDeleteWednesday is too far what about starting the nation wide strike on monday
ReplyDeleteI concur
ReplyDeleteThank you NLC Pls help us from dis dictator government, will are ready to support you
ReplyDeleteCan these nonentities just take several seats back with their dead congress?
ReplyDeleteSo now is the time to protest and go on nationwide strike after the whole nation has been in a mess for a while now?
Bunch of jokers!
The primary reason of their strike is basically what they've mentioned at the beginning of their write up..
Once the govt' promise them increment and make it reality, they'll bounce out one after the other and that ends the whatever strike and protest..
People be fightin' for their stomach and pockets alone and making it look lik they got masses interest at heart...
Smh!!!
Ghen ghen
ReplyDeleteTell the old fool. Idiot we join thief the money. I got ma old hand work which u idiot is fustrating. Why increase the price wey u no say tins go increase. Una still dey collect fat salaries idiots
ReplyDeleteWell
ReplyDeleteVery good,labour has woken up
ReplyDeleteI tot someone says Gej increased salary of public workers...
DeleteOya strike i dey wait
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Shut up illiterates.
DeleteAll na wash
ReplyDeleteI support Biko.increase minimum wage first nd Govs should pay salaries including pension
ReplyDeleteLabour pls not retreat no surrender! !!
ReplyDeleteI have been waiting for this since, yes government can't increase fuel price without increase in salary because with this increase now everyother thing will go up in price
ReplyDeleteI have been waiting for this since, yes government can't increase fuel price without increase in salary because with this increase now everyother thing will go up in price
ReplyDeleteNLC is dead!!...wish Adams was still in-charge. Well, let's wait and see.
ReplyDeleteI thought FG said they have spoken to all stackholders... Nigeria!!! Nigerians wake up!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOkay. .
ReplyDelete#FINEST
The minimum wage should be implemented if not then #wenogree
ReplyDeleteHMMMM
ReplyDeleteGood. I've been looking forward to this.
ReplyDeleteThe most ignorant always lead some things.
ReplyDeleteNo dialogue with the Government to see the long term benefit on the common people as against all the past benefit a few have reaped from non-deregulation.
They just want the people to ignorantly follow them every time they call for protests.
God please hear our cry,this fuel price is very high.Many can't afford it come to our rescue merciful Jesus.Amen and Amen
ReplyDeleteAbeg I can't wait for this strike action to be taken.
ReplyDeleteGood. GOD bless NLC and TUC
ReplyDeleteLabour has officially received sense...
ReplyDeleteI concur... About time they pulled some weight
ReplyDeleteGod bless Nigeria
ReplyDeleteBuhari’s Visit: Read What The Arcbishop Of Canterbury, Justin Portal Welby Wrote
I like this and in support of this thanks labour
ReplyDeleteNigeria every time this person and that person will go on strike. Nawa oh.
ReplyDeleteFor a second I thought u guys where sleeping.Thanks voice of the people.hope this tyrant does not do anything silly again
ReplyDeleteVery stupid n wicked govt.they want to rule us like we r in military regime.
ReplyDeleteVery stupid and wicked govt .they want to rule us like we r in military govt.
ReplyDeleteThat is selfish move, the next thing labour will request is for salary increase, do they think everybody is govt worker? ...for me, let pay this big sacrifice. Since we are on the hands of incompetent govts
ReplyDeleteRight
DeleteIgnorance and selfishness is your problem. If the don't talk now you will still condemn them....if you are not a government worker, at least you are in nigeria. I bet you are not in business because you for no make this comment .you must be a yahoo boy. I pity most youth in this generation. .they no thing.
DeleteYou must be high on candle wax...I bind and cast you to sambisa forest. Mosquito brain!
Delete@Chima you want to tell me you actually thought about what you typed before posting it ? If so please go for a brain transplant
DeleteYou are very stupid, do u know how much they pay us civil servants, no be de same market we dey go with other pple. Abeg park well. Increase salary or revert to the old pump price
DeleteGod bless you chima, NLC don't think at all. All they do is talk talk talk without thinking. What will happen to those who are not salary earners?
Delete**Double Trobule** it's never gon be easy
ReplyDeleteNa me talk am!
Long Live Lib!!!
Just let me finish ma exams b4 u stike any Yeye strike,
ReplyDelete...that's when you have a NEPA bill Certificate Holder (President) hiding under a criminal minded pastor called VP with a fantastically corrupt ministers. This is what you get! They promised N45, now secretly brought in "1" to make it 145. Minister of State for petroleum told Nigerians it's subsidy removal, Vice President is telling us that its scarcity of forex that gave rise to increase in pump price, that it wasn't subsidy removal. Who do we believe? Where are those Foolish Artists, Actresses and Actors that went on the street to protest in 2012, just hope they will join the Labour Union
ReplyDeleteNice,supported.
ReplyDeleteGovt thru d price without looking back. Nlc throw the strike immediately jare which one are u pre-informing them and leaving it till Wednesday. Is Monday and Tuesday market days? or u want them to call u BTW thoes days behind closed doors.
ReplyDeleteThe previous fuel price is one thing I can say that Nigerians are enjoying from our confused leaders. The health sector is nothing good to write home about, the educational sector is even worse talk less of the power sector.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteFoolish government! The suffering is too much , my heart aches soooo much
ReplyDeleteI support this strike 100%
ReplyDeleteWhere were they when we didn't very salary for 5months. No light for 10dys straight, hike in price of everything, fuel scarcity and fuel being sold at 250bucks.it is now they were not bribed that they want to act like touts.
ReplyDeleteThat will be good only if this strike will be for good intension
ReplyDeleteNo to NLC unreasonable call for strike.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry you can scream all you want. That price ain't going back. You lot are so ignorant, this is the only way your fuel crises can end. The subsidy is a scam and only a few are bleeding your country dry. You all are so dumb, Buhari had taken the best decision.
ReplyDeleteKevin
Ndi mbughashi.
ReplyDelete@ China u be idiot o,is it affecting only govt workers? U will pay the sacrifice alone.
ReplyDeleteYou are truly stupid @so called chima. I doubt u re a Nigerian more of being igbo
ReplyDeleteThey should revart it, the suffering is too much in the land
ReplyDeleteThey shud revert it so we can go back to the days when IPMAN can just wake up and hold the whole country to ransome cos of govt's default in subsidy payment. I doubt if the lot of u commenting here know the underlying issues at stake.
DeleteNigeria will have to go through this hard period before this will ever settle. Let be honest with ourselves how many times have we actually bought petrol at 86 naira even there was no scarcity. The subsidy was a fraud and shold be removed.Let give this new govt a support and dont play into the hands of corrupt politicians using NLC.
ReplyDeleteNLC have been compromised by subsidy collectors who will do anything to keep collecting free billions.
ReplyDeleteLet us ask ourselves, how many of us can claim they know one of the subsidy collectors? How many of us can say "yes, I know a subsidy collector who has giving back".
Only a fraction of 2% of nigerians know these people.
They are fantastically wealthy while the rest of us r struggling, feeding from hand to mouth.
Yes FG should have balanced it by increasing minimum wage but how many nigerians are even entitled to wage increase? Its better FG uses subsidy money to build the nation and improver power sector, health, education and other vital sectors to ease our pains. But not a penny should go back to those greedy selfish subsibillionaires.
Please NLC dont dissappoint....youre the pillar for this strike to have positive effect.
ReplyDeleteI expect this to start on Monday not Wednesday...Please shut down Nigeria if the price is not reversed..don't bargain for minimum wage increment as not all Nigerians are workers.Useless and clueless governments..I tot Vp is a pastor and professor......
ReplyDeleteAbia...who dash am?NLC,FG,presido n al are all thieves for al i Kia....only God can deliver us....d suffer too much abegggg...
DeleteSacrifice indeed!...What does ur govt ever do fo u? All they do is collect & collect from the citizenry, yet we provide every amenity for ourselves while they live large
ReplyDeletePetrol subsidy is the one & only our govt manages to throw our way. So let it stay jare
ReplyDeleteFrom all the negative comments I have read, it is clear that most of the negative comments are coming from my igbo brothers and sisters back home in the east or those in festac.
ReplyDeleteWhen are we going to start letting nigerians know we are capable of intelligent reasoning? All we do is criticize un constructively. Its like when early man argued that the surface of the earth was flat when they could clearly see that the moon was round. Many of us igbos are extremely short sighted when it comes to analytic reasoning.
Many nigerians paid well above the pump price to get fuel during each scarcity period and paid hiked transport fares. As long as we continue to have subsidized fuel, scarcity will never stop, majority of us will continue to suffer as we cannot go to work or run our business due to unavailability.
Based on the law of demand and supply, the price of fuel will eventually crash, its a matter of time. A bitter pill we must all chew to cure this lifetime headache. How many of us can point to a subsidy collector that has helped, that has given back, that has built community roads or clinics?
Instead they take the money to UK and co to invest, abeg make ona park well or pack out to pakistan.
Tel em....
DeleteWho strike epp?
ReplyDeleteToothless barking dogs! You are all ass-lickers who has already been bought over! Absolutely nothing will come out of this! Mtshewww
ReplyDeleteHope they are for real cos we all know they will be called behind closed doors and paid off. They never represent the masses, just their own selfish selves as the government.
ReplyDeletethe Truth is that Gej is the best president Nigeria has ever had,he saw the scam in fuel subsidy,BT then wht happened. why are Pple so biased and one sided,now APC is carrying out the same thing they couldn't exercise patience for Gej to do,Frm Bvn to subsidy removal. wht new idea has APC brought on board.if dis thing was done wen Gej suggested, fuel will be like Mtn sim by NW,Frm 21,000 in 2001 to 100 in 2016.we just aborted d man's plans and drag ourselves centuries back.
ReplyDeletethe Truth is that Gej is the best president Nigeria has ever had,he saw the scam in fuel subsidy,BT then wht happened. why are Pple so biased and one sided,now APC is carrying out the same thing they couldn't exercise patience for Gej to do,Frm Bvn to subsidy removal. wht new idea has APC brought on board.if dis thing was done wen Gej suggested, fuel will be like Mtn sim by NW,Frm 21,000 in 2001 to 100 in 2016.we just aborted d man's plans and drag ourselves centuries back.
ReplyDeleteNa now dem go see sey that job no easy like that
ReplyDeleteThey should still tackle electricity and jobs
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