 The Trade Union Congress has presented the federal government with a list of demands to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal on the citizens. The demands include an increase in minimum wage, tax holiday for certain categories of people as well as reverting to status quo as negotiations continue. A federal government delegation held a meeting with representatives of the organised labour excluding the Nigeria Labour Congress at the President of Villa in Abuja on Sunday. Spokesperson for the government, Delia Laque, who led the delegation of the federal government and meeting told State House correspondents that the meeting, that most of the demands were not practicable and would be tabled, were not impracticable and would be tabled before the President. A lot of the items on the list are not impracticable. What we need to do is to study the numbers very well and then we have asked the TUC to also give us a leeway to consult very exhaustively and come back on Tuesday, reconvene on Tuesday to actually look at the numbers, the viability, practicability of all the items that have been presented to us. Now, most important top priority on the list which the government is also looking at very seriously and the President has announced before is the issue of the minimum wage which the labour movement has demanded as a consequence of these removal of the consequential impact of the removal of subsidy. So the government is looking at that and Mr President is most likely going to constitute a tripartite committee. Also speaking to newsmen, the TUC President, Festa Sosifo, said while some progress has been made with the negotiations, the union would still brief its members ahead of Tuesday's meeting. We have presented the list of our demands to them and they received it in good faith that they will go back to their principal and come back to us on Tuesday. So we are hopeful that the demand that we have presented would be reviewed in the best interest of Nigerian workers and the entire Nigerian masses. It's because they are going back to Mr President. So we also think that we should give them a benefit of doubt so that we will convey this meeting again on Tuesday. So we have and top most in our demand was clearly stated as well that for utmost good faith and in the interest of social dialogue that they should revert back the pump rise, why discussion continues.