{"id":89031,"date":"2023-06-01T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:09:49","slug":"disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Disregard stories on strike action \u2013 NLC tell Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the general public to disregard stories circulating in the social media space claiming that the congress would commence protest action on Friday, June 2, against the increase in the petrol pump price.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by NLC Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah, indicated that even as the organized labour is outraged by the increase in price of petrol that would bring untold hardship to ordinary Nigerians, the union has no plan to start any action tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that the congress is only meeting tomorrow to look into the issue and decide on the next line of action, promising to keep Nigerians updated of the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The new pump price of petrol as approved by the federal government has continued to generate criticisms with many viewing the move as too anti-masses.<\/p>\n<p>However, the federal government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu insisted that the total removal of petrol subsidy was for the good of the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the general public to disregard stories circulating in the social media space claiming that the congress would commence protest action on Friday, June 2, against the increase in the petrol pump price. A statement issued by NLC Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":89030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254,220],"class_list":["post-89031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-nlc"],"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>Disregard stories on strike action \u2013 NLC tell Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the general public to disregard stories circulating in the social media ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disregard stories on strike action \u2013 NLC tell Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the general public to disregard stories circulating in the social media ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-01T16:56:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-01T19:09:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/sm_1685630223.227446.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Disregard stories on strike action \u2013 NLC tell Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-01T16:56:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-01T19:09:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/sm_1685630223.227446.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"NLC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/disregard-stories-on-strike-action-nlc-tell-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Disregard stories on strike action \u2013 NLC tell Nigerians - 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