The Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers, Tajudeen Agbede, announced on Monday that the union would join the planned NLC strike if government and labour fail to resolve their differences.

“We are an affiliate of the NLC, we shall obey its directives. So, we have no choice than to join the strike anytime we’re called upon to do so,” Agbede told the transport correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

Nigerians are waiting anxiously to know the outcome of a last-minute dialogue between government and organised labour over a nationwide strike scheduled for Tuesday November 6 by labour unions, arising from disagreements with government over a national minimum wage.

Labour has demanded N30,000 but the Federal Government insists it can only pay N24, 000 while state governments offered to pay N22,500.

Public sector workers in Nigeria are among the least paid in the world, although political office holders in the country, including members of the country’s bicameral parliament, earn some of the biggest wages in the world

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