Subsidy: Why NLC shuns meeting with FG
...As TUC seeks pay rise *Writes state councils over planned strike *Orders full mobilisation, total compliance if… *Nationwide blackout looms as electricity workers join NLC’s planned strikelTUC’s meeting with FG ends in deadlock, to reconvene tomorrow, *NUJ mobilises members for nationwide protest, *NNPCL to wind down crude oil swap contracts — Kyari, *As major, independent marketers plan importationlIncrease in minimum wage essential — PWC, *Probe missing $2.1bn, N3.1tn subsidy payments or face lawsuit, SERAP tells Tinubu LEADERS of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has shunned a scheduled meeting with government officials over removal of subsidy and subsequent over 200 per cent hike in pump price of petrol, until fuel price is returned to status quo. Following President Bola Tinubu’s removal of the subsidy during his inauguration speech on May 29, scarcity of the product hit the citizenry nationwide as marketers hoarded and hiked the price of fuel. A meeting between gove...