Posted 2/27/2024, 10:42:02 AM
NLC Presents Demands for Economic Relief to National Assembly Amid Protests Over Hunger and Low Wages
- NLC president Joe Ajaero handed over letter of demands to National Assembly, received by Senate Committee Chairman Diket Plang
- Demands include implementing welfare provisions, employment generation, agricultural subsidies, fixing refineries
- Ajaero said protests happening because of hunger in the land, Nigeria becoming like Zimbabwe
- Minimum wage negotiations started but amount not yet decided
- Plang assured protesters that NLC demands would be discussed immediately