A new report by the ICFTU on core labour standards in Nigeria, which coincides with Nigeria’s trade policy review at the WTO this week, shows serious shortcomings in the application and enforcement of all eight core labour standards, particularly with regard to the lack of trade union rights of workers including the right to strike, discrimination and child labour. In October 2004, the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) was arrested during a general strike despite the fact that the action was an entirely legitimate exercise of the collective rights of the trade union movement. Though released, he is still facing criminal charges in an Abuja High Court while police have raided his house and office on several occasions.