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.