Train services suspended nationwide as railway workers join NLC, TUC strike

Our reporter/ Train services have been suspended across the country as rail workers comply with the nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).

In an interview with NAN, Segun Esan, the secretary-general of the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers, said the association is involved in the strike “and no train was running as a result”.

The NLC and TUC had said they would embark on a nationwide strike from midnight on November 14.

Speaking with reporters on Monday, Festus Osifo, TUC’s president, said the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibilities”.

The nationwide strike is in protest against the alleged brutality of Joe Ajaero, the NLC president, in Imo state.

Ajaero was picked up from the Imo council secretariat of the congress in Owerri by heavily armed police officers and was later alleged brutalised by political thugs of governor Hope Uzodimma.