State governors hold emergency meeting over NLC’s planned strike

The thirty-six state governors are to hold an emergency meeting over the threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to go on an industrial action to demand that the Federal Government (FG) invalidates its decision on the recent hike in the prices of petroleum products and electricity.
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) made the disclosure in a statement issued by its Head, Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.
According to Bello-Barkindo, the emergency meeting scheduled for 6pm on Thursday, September 24, 2020 would seek ways of settling the rift and find a mutual agreement.

He said that all governors were expected to attend the first NGF emergency virtual teleconference to consider the matter which he described as of urgent national importance.

Bello-Barkindo added that the matter needs to be quickly resolved in order not to worsen the already bad situation of Nigerians as caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.