Representatives of the labour comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have resumed their negotiations with the Federal Government over issues around subsidies.
The meeting resumed Monday evening as part of the desperate efforts by the Bola Tinubu led administration to stop workers from embarking on an indefinite strike over the rising cost of living.
It would be recalled that the organised Labour stormed out of the meeting on Friday last week, claiming that there was no top government officials to negotiate with them.
The botched meeting was to take briefing from three subcommittees of mass transit, the CNG and cash transfer, which the government had proposed to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal. The federal government’s representatives at the meeting are the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; the Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachollom Daju; the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari; among others.
On the organised Labour’s side are the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero; his counterpart from TUC, Festus Osifo; the General Secretary of NLC, Emma Ugbaja; the TUC Secretary, Nuhu Toro, and other members of the organised Labour delegation including, Prof. Sam Amadi.