The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Niger State has shutdown the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport in Minna and other government establishments in the state capital.
The state chairman of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Ibrahim Gana led a joint monitoring and evaluation committee comprising of other state NLC executives to ensure strict compliance in the state.
Some of the government establishments visited in Minna include the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Federal Secretariat Complex, Niger State High Court Complex and Niger State Board of Internal Revenue Service.
Others are the Niger State Urban Development Board, Niger State Universal Basic Education Board, General Hospital, Office of the Deputy Governor, Niger State Secretariat and the Niger State House Assembly.
Gana, while speaking to newsmen after the monitoring exercise, said the industrial action is for the good of the citizens.
He explained that compliance was 99 per cent in the state.
According to him, “The level of compliance was 99 per cent, except for some few organizations where a small fraction of workers turned up for skeleton services, who of course were chased out of their offices by the members of the monitoring and evaluation committee.”
Strike: Airport, secretariat, hospitals, others shutdown in Niger