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NLC call off strike but teachers persist

[Chad] Former Chadian President Hissene Habre. Human Rights Watch
L'ex-président tchadien Hissène Habré
    BANJUL

    Following Obasanjo’s promise at his inauguration to review salaries and conditions of service, public servants have suspended a pay strike they began in April, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

    Adams Oshiomole, president of the umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress, said the suspension was to allow the new administration time to rebuild the country’s battered economy.

    Public employees in more than two-thirds of the country’s 36 states went on an indefinite pay strike in April to demand implementation of a new minimum wage of 3,000 naira (US $32) approved by the head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar.. They had already suspended their action in some states in the run-up to civilian rule.

    However, teachers have vowed to continue their five-week-old pay strike that has closed thousands of primary and secondary schools, AFP quoted Gabriel Falade, general secretary of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, as saying.

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