Negotiations between Organised Labour and the Federal Government will resume by 1 pm today.

A highly placed source within the National Executive Council (NEC) says there are plans to relax the effect of the strike following the meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Monday, June 3.

The source explained that at the meeting with the Federal Government on the instance of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume, it was agreed that the Tripartite Committee on the new minimum wage would be sitting every day to conclude negotiations.

The source said, “We relaxed the strike in line with the agreement with the Federal Government that we will meet every day.

“We are going back to negotiation by 1 pm today. We hope that from now till the weekend, we will be able to reach an agreement but if no agreement is reached, we will resume strike next week.’