{"id":29794,"date":"2020-09-12T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29794"},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:06:13","slug":"fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol","title":{"rendered":"FG, Labour set for showdown talks over hike in petrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Federal government will meet with members of the organised Labour next Tuesday, to discuss the recent hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said the government would show its entire records of finance to the organised labour.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ngige, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), all institutions handling the finances of the government and their affiliates would be present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe invitation is going out to them this afternoon (yesterday) \u2013 to the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and their affiliates or supporters and friends in the civil society organisations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the meeting, government finances, challenges and everything will be laid bare on the table. Their own fears and what they think is also good for the Nigerian people, especially the workers, they will also table it so that we look at it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Federal government will meet with members of the organised Labour next Tuesday, to discuss the recent hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariffs. Speaking with reporters after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said the government would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,584],"class_list":["post-29794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-chris-ngige"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FG, Labour set for showdown talks over hike in petrol - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal government will meet with members of the organised Labour next Tuesday, to discuss the recent hike\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG, Labour set for showdown talks over hike in petrol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal government will meet with members of the organised Labour next Tuesday, to discuss the recent hike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-12T16:06:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/425bb7ec-chris-ngige-1-696x385.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"FG, Labour set for showdown talks over hike in petrol\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-12T16:06:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/425bb7ec-chris-ngige-1-696x385.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Chris Ngige\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-labour-set-for-showdown-talks-over-hike-in-petrol\",\"name\":\"FG, Labour set for showdown talks over hike in petrol - 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