 The meeting between the Nigerian Liberal Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC and the federal government has ended without an agreement. The meeting at the instance of the federal government was intended to reach an agreement with organized labor after President Bollab Tinnaboo's announcement that petrol subsidy would cease to be in place by the end of June. Speaking at the meeting on Wednesday night, Delia Lackey, a member of the government's team, said the meeting was engaging but did not provide details. We had a very robust engagement, you know, we cross-fatalized ideas, ideas flew from all sides and there's one thing that is remarkable, even from the labor side, and that is Nigeria. We are looking at the peace, progress and stability of Nigeria and that is what is paramount. We cannot go into any details now because talks are still ongoing. However, Joe Agero, President of NLC and his counterpart in Trade Union Congress, TUC, Festus of C4, said no consensus was reached at the meeting. The organized labor said the meeting would convene or reconvene after they have met with their members at the date yet to be fixed. Look, as far as labor is concerned, we do have a consensus in this meeting. You don't put the partner, you don't put, ask him to negotiate under gunpoint. If we agree for a meeting by two today and in the morning you come out with price modulation. How can you fix price in a regulated market? The prayers of NLC is that we go back to status quo, negotiate, think of alternatives and all the effects and how to manage the effects this action is going to have on the people if it is a nation that must... There is nothing that has been concluded, that is why we are reconvening. So there was nothing that was concluded, so that is why we will reconvene again. If we had met before, I mean before now, we could have proposed a lot of things. Just as the CNG has said, we have experts in our midst who could have profiled some solutions. The petrol subsidy removal has long plagued past administrations as they attempted, albeit unsuccessfully to eliminate it. In his inaugural address on Monday, Tinibu said the petrol subsidy is gone and that his administration would discontinue it. His statement was met with pushback from organized labour.