Nigeria came to a complete standstill on Monday as trade union-led strikes shut down schools, airports, hospitals and the national power grid, plunging the country into darkness.
The Federal Government said it was committed to increasing the national minimum wage to over 60,000 naira as agreed at a meeting with labour unions on Monday night, but the unions, in a post on X, said the strike would continue until they heard their members at a meeting scheduled for today.
Many Nigerians said they support the strike and want the federal government to cater to the needs of workers, citing excessive spending by the quasi-government agencies.
Betty Bambose, chairperson of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, said the Senate should align their salaries with the minimum wage to understand the plight of the workers.
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja was also closed down as doctors and other health workers joined the NLC strike.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God at the weekend suspended the Senior Pastor of City of David Parish and Head of the Apapa House of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade.
The pastor was reportedly suspended for three months by the church’s governing council following public outcry over the lavish 60th birthday party he hosted for the wife of the late Access Bank Group CEO, Herbert Wigwe, Siji Iluyomade, shortly after his death.
Many thought that Wigwe’s birthday, celebrated just a week after his death, was in bad taste. Since Herbert Wigwe had given so much grace to the church before his death, the birthday party suggested that the church had no emotional attachment to him.
Criminal gangs vandalized and stole steel sections used in the construction of the Second Niger Bridge, a vital national infrastructure linking cities and economic activities, when a good Samaritan discovered the incident and reported it to the police.
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