Some employees in government offices in Nigeria walked off their jobs Tuesday in protest of the growing cost of living due to the removal of gas subsidies, threatening to “shut down” Africa’s largest economy if their demands for improved welfare are not met.
Made up of hundreds of thousands of members, the Nigeria Labor Congress workers association began a two-day “warning strike," their second in over a month. They met last week and complained that the decision of Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu to remove gas subsidies in May has “unleashed massive suffering on Nigerian workers and masses.”
