Abuja — After all the muscle flexing and threats to shut down the country over the removal of the subsidy on petrol and the hike in the price of the commodity, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday suspended its protest, stating that it will now embrace dialogue.
The move came on the heels of the pressure mounted on the union by chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who hitherto fervently opposed deregulation in 2012, but now led the charge in calling on labour to shelve its opposition to the federal government on the policy and return to the negotiating table.
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