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Labour bows to pressure, suspends indefinite strike

The Organised Labour has on Tuesday suspended the nationwide strike for five days to give room for meeting with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage.

A source with the leaders of Labour disclosed this to newsmen.

Recall that Labour leaders had a successful meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume, and other government officials on Monday and reached a resolution that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was committed to a new minimum wage higher than N60,000.

The union equally resolved that the Tripartite Committee would meet every day for the next one week with a view to arriving at an agreeable National Minimum Wage.

Today at a meeting with FG Tripartite Committee scheduled by 10am, Labour suspended its srike.

This development however mandate every government and private offices to reopen and function as usual.

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