By Chioma Obinagwam
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has shutdown the national electricity generation (national grid) system.
Confiance News gathered from the official X handle of the Transmission Company of Nigeria on Monday.
According to the statement, “The Transmission Company of Nigeria hereby informs the general public that the Labour Union has shut down the national grid, resulting in black out nationwide. The national grid shut down occured at about 2.19am this morning, 3rd June 2024.
At about 1:15am this morning, the Benin Transmission Operator under the Independent System Operations unit of TCN reported that all operators were driven away from the control room and that staff that resisted were beaten while some were wounded in the course of forcing them out of the control room and without any form of control or supervision, the Benin Area Control Center was brought to zero.”
Confiance News recalls that NLC had issued a notice to the Federal Government (FG) of an indefinite strike due its demand for an increase in minimum wage of Nigerian workers owing to the high prices of food and services in the country.
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