The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their industrial action – over a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff – for five days.

In a communique signed by Presidents of NLC and TUC, Comrade JOE AJAERO and Comrade FESTUS OSIFO in Abuja, organized labour said it suspended the nationwide strike in order to create the right ambience for negotiation to continue unhindered.

According to the communique, a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions approved to relax the industrial action for one week with immediate effect.

In the meantime, aviation unions have opened barricaded airport terminals, following the suspension of an indefinite strike by the TUC and NLC.

The General Secretary, Air Traffic Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, FRANCIS AKINJOLE, said that the strike was ‘relaxed’ for a week to enable the unions to continue talks with the Federal Government on a new minimum wage.

Similarly, the President General of the Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals, ALALE ADEDAYO, said that the organized labour had accepted the Federal Government’s offer for continued negotiations.

ADEDAYO said that flight operations had re-started on the domestic wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja.