LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Public schools in Bayelsa State have been shut down in compliance with the two-day nationwide warning strike declared by the national secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
This is also as Members of the NLC in the State, have stayed away from their places of work.
While public schools are reportedly shut, it is observed that private schools remain in session across Yenagoa.
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In the early hours of the day, Trade Union Congress workers in the State did not observe the national strike as the TUC had pulled out of the action, but they eventually left their offices for home.
Bayelsa State NLC leadership had issued a statement announcing plans to embark on a two-day warning strike today, in line with the national directive of the congress “to press home its demands to the Federal Government.”
The statement signed by the NLC chairman, Barnabas Simon, and secretary, John Angese, urged all workers to comply by staying in their respective houses on Tuesday and Wednesday.
