The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria announced a continuous strike, and organized labor has expressed satisfaction with the degree of worker cooperation.

TUC Deputy President Comrade Tommy Okon stated, “We are really pleased with the degree of compliance thus far. I can tell you with authority that today’s compliance was huge and tomorrow’s compliance will be 100%, even though many workers received their unions’ warning extremely late yesterday.”

According to Okon, who oversaw the monitoring team of the two labor centers sent to enforce and monitor compliance, “In the States, the level of compliance is about 80 percent.” There may be a small number of noncompliant areas in certain areas, but I promise that tomorrow will see a greater impact.

“Here in FCT, a lot of government offices got the directive from their unions very late and some this morning, and that hindered the expected compliance. Am sure that by tomorrow people will not be in the offices.

“Note also that a slot of workers who did not get the notice earlier and had gone to work today are regretting wasting their money on transportation and time to go to the offices especially as we ensured no working activity took place.

“By tomorrow there will be total compliance. I am saying this based on the reports from our enforcement teams who we sent out to monitor and enforce compliance.”