The National Union of Electricity Employees has restored the national grid after the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress suspended their strike.
The National President Adebiyi Adeyeye announced that electricity has been restored following the suspension of the strike.
Organised labour had embarked on a nationwide strike on Monday, over Government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage from 60,000 naira and reverse the band A tariff to 65naira per kilowatt-hour instead of 206 naira per kilowatt-hour.
In compliance of the strike, the electricity workers shut down the national grid, thereby plunging the nation into darkness in the early hours of Monday.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, in a statement on Monday, said its workers on duty were beaten and injured by union leaders who stormed its offices to send them out, but Adeyeye debunked the allegation, saying the union only withdrew its members in compliance with the directive of the organised labour.
