Electricity workers strike

ELECTRICITY Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in Nigeria have warned of possible power outage across the country over threats of a strike action by members of ...

“This is to inform our esteemed customers of the planned industrial action by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) at the power stations controlled by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). “Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), wishes to inform its distinguished Customers that the interruption of the power supply being experienced across its franchise areas is due to the ongoing industrial issues between the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). ELECTRICITY Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in Nigeria have warned of imminent blackout across the country over plans by members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) to commence an industrial action on Wednesday.

But in the letter, Abdulaziz asked the union to “stay action”, assuring that TCN had taken steps to resolve the issues. “We are pleased to inform you that ...

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The aggrieved workers complained about the alleged failure of FG to pay their entitlements... | Pulse Nigeria.

In the circular titled “Unresolved issues on the year 2021 promotion exercise and others,” the union threatened to down tools at the expiration of the ultimatum if its grievances were not addressed. What their issues are: The aggrieved workers complained about the alleged failure of the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the entitlement of former staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in December 2019. After 2 months of keeping the peace, the union, yesterday, threatened to down tools at the expiration of the ultimatum if its grievances were not addressed.

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), on Wednesday, disclosed that a nationwide industrial action will commence, "barring any last-minute |

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The national electricity grid on Wednesday morning began a nosedive from over 4000 megawatts (MW) to 762MW as workers under the Transmission.

Head of Service of the Federation from working in other areas in the power sector, we are not sure you are speaking for the Head of Service after memos addressed to that office several months ago have gone without any acknowledgement,” the letter stated. “Premised on the foregoing, we may be constrained to continue with this action by Wednesday 17th August 2022 with a total withdrawal of services. However, NUEE on 16th August, 2022, wrote back to the minister and the MD of TCN, insisting that the protest will continue. This directive is in contravention of our Conditions of Service and Career Progression Paths, and unilaterally done without the relevant stakeholders.” More so, the Managing Director of TCN, Engr. The peak generation achieved on Tuesday was 4,829MW.

Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, has invited the striking electricity workers for an emergency meeting.

[video seen by TheCable](https://www.thecable.ng/just-in-nigerians-hit-by-power-outage-as-workers-shut-down-transmission-stations), the workers were seen shutting down the power station in Abuja as they chanted solidarity songs. [had also appealed](https://www.thecable.ng/staff-welfare-tcn-begs-electricity-workers-to-suspend-planned-strike/amp) to the workers to suspend the proposed strike, assuring that steps had been taken to resolve the issues. “In the meantime, we would like to reassure our esteemed customers that we are currently working with the relevant regulatory authorities and the parties involved to reach an amicable resolution and avert the strike action.”

DisCos blamed the outage on the ongoing industrial conflict between the Nigerian Transmission Company and the electricity workers union.

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The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company has announced power supply disruption in the South-East due to the industrial action embarked upon by electricity ...

“As a result of this development, all our feeders are out of supply and this has affected supply to our esteemed customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.” The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company has announced power supply disruption in the South-East due to the industrial action embarked upon by electricity workers. The situation affects Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states.

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended its strike. This followed a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, ...

The statement added that the union’s secretary general, Joe Ajaero, has “assured the minister that all necessary steps would be taken to restore the supply of electricity to the country immediately”. “The Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has apprehended the strike embarked upon by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) following an emergency meeting between the union, government, and other stakeholders, at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige,” read a statement from the Head, Press and Public Relations of the ministry. “Dr Ngige set up a tripartite committee to look into the grievances of electricity workers towards addressing them.”

National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has called off its nationwide strike. The decision followed an emergency meeting with the Minister of.

National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has called off its nationwide strike. [News](https://dailypost.ng/hot-news/) Electricity workers call off strike

The decision was a fallout of the conciliation meeting between the Federal Government and the striking electricity workers, which ended in Abuja on ...

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company said the industrial action by NUEE led to disruption of power supply to electricity consumers across the nation. “In ...

Good journalism costs a lot of money. The Eko Electricity Distribution Company said the industrial action by NUEE led to disruption of power supply to electricity consumers across the nation. [Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc](https://www.abujaelectricity.com/) (AEDC) wishes to inform its distinguished Customers that the interruption of the power supply being experienced across its franchise areas is due to the ongoing industrial issues between the NUEE and the TCN,” AEDC said in a notice.

THE Nigerian electricity workers have suspended their nationwide strike, which led to total blackout in different parts of the country.

In attendance at the meeting were the Minister of State, Power, Prince Jeddy Agba, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ms. According to Ngige, the members of the bipartite committee include the Minister of State for Power, Jeddy Agba (Chairman), Permanent Secretary, Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Permanent Secretary, General Services, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, representative of BPE and two representatives from NUEE and SSAEC. The issues are the alleged contravention in their Conditions of Service and Career Progression, stigmatisation of electricity staff by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation and refusal of the market operators to fund the payment of entitlements of ex-PHCN staff as agreed in the December 2019 agreement.

I do not know of what other hardship is yet to be visited on Nigerians before President Buhari leaves office. By turning off gas turbines and power plants, the ...

They should be condemned; and to prevent a recurrence, the national assembly should make a law that criminalises an industrial action by certain workers, including electricity workers, just as it is illegal for the people in law enforcement to go on strike. This strike action is the clearest manifestation of the administration’s inability to nib a problem in the bud before it overwhelms us. They are actually staff of privately owned companies who bought the assets and liabilities of the defunct PHCN in the last days of the Jonathan administration. It is therefore a shock that the same problems have led to this strike action that has plunged the nation into a huge economic loss. The ministers of labour and power and the management of TCN should be fired right away. The workers are protesting the non-payment of outstanding arrears owed former workers of defunct PHCN, suspension of conditions of service and lack of defined career path for workers and the directive by the TCN board to conduct promotion interviews for acting principal managers who are moving to assistant general manager positions.

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the President on ...

The power minister equally explained that the country is unable to reach its promised target of 5,000 megawatts of electricity generation because of a shortage in gas supply. The Mr Aliyu noted that the discussions have reached an advanced stage and it is for this reason that the Minister of Labour as well as the Minister of State for power were absent at the executive council meeting. The Federal Government has stated that it is holding discussions with the organized labour in order to proffer resolution to various issues which have led electricity workers in the country to embark on a strike.

Businesses and other power consumers were thrown into darkness on Wednesday as the industrial action embarked upon by electricity workers, which lasted for ...

“There is widespread inflation because people cannot bring out goods, and the blackout will ground operations due to the high cost of diesel. “On the socioeconomic side too, we will have a lot of social ills, insecurity will increase. The 19 per cent current inflation rate will spike because already, prices of goods are getting out of hand. The statement read in part, “The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Muda Yusuf, said the shutdown of Nigeria’s power grid had piled more pressure on businesses across the country. He said, “The loss will be unquantifiable because of the multiplier effect of not producing.

Electricity workers under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have suspended their nationwide strike for two weeks.

And that, really, is the point of all this madness. He criticised the union for deciding to go on a strike when there really wasn’t any basis for it, especially seeing how low the country has fallen. No surprise if it works once again,” he concluded. “This NUEE strike is 100% politics. It’s all about one narcissistic megalomaniac seeking to make political capital and feed off the perceived unpopularity of the FG,” he tweeted. “The issues that we have, I thank the Honourable Minister and the Minister of State for Power for their maturity in handling these issues that we brought up,” he said.

The entire country was thrown into a total blackout on Wednesday as the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, made real its threat to shut down.

According to Adeyanju: “It’s not even the looming darkness, there is no sign of any government in Nigeria. “They don’t need to wait for darkness to operate, Nigeria is already witnessing security darkness everywhere. Government should restore the light because darkness would boost the activities of these bandits.” Regrettably, this is coming weeks after we had emerged from a hectic grid management regime, precipitated by paucity of generation, which we grappled with for a couple of months.” With the strike suspended for two weeks, concerned Nigerians have asked the Federal Government to go all out and avert a repeat of such action, which they said was inimical to national security and an additional burden in the midst of the worsening economic crisis. The aggrieved union members are complaining about the alleged failure of the Federal Government to pay the entitlement of former staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in December 2019.

Electricity workers under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have suspended their ongoing strike for 2 weeks.

The ministry in a statement signed by its Spokesperson said, “The Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has apprehended the strike embarked upon by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) following an emergency meeting between the union, government, and other stakeholders, at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige,” read a statement from the Head, Press and Public Relations of the ministry. Also confirming the development, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in a statement said that Dr Ngige has set up a tripartite committee to look into the grievances of electricity workers. Abah also said that the electricity union had written a letter to the Board of TCN to schedule a meeting with them to resolve the issue that it had with the power company.

Electricity distribution companies on Thursday began to restore power to customers across Nigeria after the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) ...

Good journalism costs a lot of money. As of 8.33 am today Aug 18, 22, AEDC received and absorbed only 100 MegaWatts stabilization supply to help restart our system,” the AEDC said in a statement. Though this has been gradual, it is hoped that before noon today all EEDC outgoing feeders would have fully been restored”. “Following the resolution between the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and other relevant stakeholders, power supply has been restored across our franchise,” the IBDC said. The EEDC said “Given the decision reached yesterday evening at a meeting between the Union/striking electricity employees and the Ministers of Labour and Power, restoration of supply has commenced since 00.34hrs. Electricity distribution companies on Thursday began to restore power to customers across Nigeria after the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) suspended its strike.