A government delegation Sunday met with leaders of labour unions with a view to averting the nationwide strike scheduled to commence on Tuesday.
The meeting was held a few hours after President Bola Tinubu addressed Nigerians on the occasion of Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary.
During his address, Mr Tinubu pledged the payment of N25,000 allowance to junior federal civil servants for six months as part of efforts to ameliorate the impact of the removal of petrol subsidy.
However, during the meeting between the labour unions and the government delegation, the government told the union leaders that the allowance would be meant for all civil servants, information minister Mohammed Idris said in a statement.
“The Federal Government has announced N25,000 only as provisional wage increment for all treasury-paid federal government workers for six months,” Mr Idris wrote.
In his speech Sunday morning, Mr Tinubu also announced that the government will increase…