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Agony, anger and condemnation has greeted the increase in pump price of petrol which saw it jumping to over N600 a litre. In their seperate reactions, Labour party ,Nigeria Labour congress , Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre  CIS-LAC, the liberties Organisation  and others condemned it in unequivocal term. The government should take for granted , the patience  of poor Nigerians who relutanly bear the dire increase due to subsidy removal, as part of sacrifice awaiting when government would have settled to come up with amelioratve measurem for ciitizens''Currently there is rumour that will  be increase in electri tariff And unfortunately the president is not saying anything It means that he has Lost control , and many Nigerians are not finding the situation funny at all.

The Federal Government on Monday resumed negotiations with organised labour presented by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on measures to take to alleviate the suffering associated with the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

NLC and TUC a fortnight ago had suspended its planned nationwide indefinite strike action to protest last month’s withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

The meeting was suspended after meeting with representatives of government at the State House, Abuja. 

Speaking to State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, said a steering committee has been set up, alongside technical committees that will help achieve the planned palliatives for Nigerians.

He said: “As we promised the last time we met; when labour called off their planned strike, we held a meeting today. We went through all the demands that labour had tabled, that is government and the labour unions and the last time, they said they were going to go back to their executives and make consultations so that we reconvene today.