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Nigeria suffers national power outage as labor unions shut down grid

Electricity substations shut down, flights suspended and parliament gates blocked in protest over minimum wage

Nigeria’s main labour unions have shut down the national grid, disrupted airline operations and blocked the gates to parliament as they began an indefinite strike over the government’s failure to agree a minimum wage. Since taking office, Tinubu has announced a series of reforms, which have fuelled a rise in inflation to an almost 30-year high and worsened a cost of living crisis in Africa’s most populous country. “Since we undertook the nationwide protest against the recent hike in electricity tariffs, no government official has called us for discussion,” the TUC president, Festus Osifo, was quoted as saying on Friday.

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