Nigeria: We Lost Over 200 Plateau Workers, Labour Laments

22 December 2012

Jos — The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the seven-month old workers' strike in Plateau State, which ended yesterday as all round loss, lamenting that it lost over 200 workers in the course of the struggle.

Addressing the press on the resolution that led to the calling off of the strike, the state Chairman of the NLC, Comrade Jibrin Bancir, who added that leaders were just returning from the burial of one of the union's members, said the deceased died in an accident in the course of the struggle.

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