Fuel price hike: Nigerians at breaking point, NLC, Atiku warn
*NLC insists on reversal, urges citizens to revolt against hike *VAT, fuel price hikes’ll worsen Nigeria’s cost-of-living crisis – Atiku *Complete refineries by Sept or sue contractors, Falana tells FG *As SERAP calls for reversal of unlawful fuel price hike THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, have warned that the increase in petrol price by the federal government has put most Nigerians on a breaking point. This came as human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday urged the Federal Government to ensure completion of rehabilitation of the nation’s refineries by September 2024 or take legal action against the contractors for breaching their contracts. This is even as the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, also yesterday, asked President Bola Tinubu to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, to immediately reverse the apparently “illegal and unconstitutional” hike in the pump price of petrol ...