Source: allAfrica

The Nigeria Labour Congress will convene a national peace summit to address the country's security challenges come August, NLC president, Abulwahed Omar, has said.

"I am not sure, we have not taken a date," the NLC president told delegates at the National Women Conference of the NLC at the women development Center in Abuja today, "but definitely may be its is not going to go outside August. We are going to convene this very important peace summit. And we do believe that we are going to make the difference. Comrades, if you remember, with all that was said and done until labour now convened a similar summit and some workshops for the Niger Delta issue before we started having lasting solution."

"And we are proud to say that labour has contributed very immensely to the solution that was finally found to the issue of Niger Delta militancy. We are going to do it again because Nigeria belongs to all of us. Nigeria will not perish. Nigeria will come great. Nigeria most continues to thrive and by the grace of God it is going to be under the watchful eyes and auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress in particular and Nigerians in general."

Comrade Omar lamented that the gains of the minimum wage have been defused as evident in the economic hardship Nigerians are going through.

"But It is a very serious period where we are not only faced with economic crisis, many pupils have been sent back home because parents could not pay school fees. Look at the issue of minimum wage, it is now a history. It has been completely defused to the extent that the benefits are completely lost."

In her speech, the president of NLC's National Women Committee, Ladi Iliya said called for the protection of women working in the informal sector, especially the domestic workers.

 

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