 The leadership of the Mandarin Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have declared a total nationwide strike effective next Tuesday, November 14, 2023. The leadership of the two unions reached the resolution after an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. The two major labour unions had nationwide mobilisation of members and allies had begun immediately, and the action by the organised labour followed the brutalisation of NLC National President Joe Agere last week in Imou State. For both Congresses, frowned at what happened in Imou. We frowned completely at it. Issues don't have happened. For the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, leading workers to examine and protest the non-payment of salaries of some of the workers in Imou to protest the declaration of go-to-workers when these people actively go to work every day, and several issues that have bedeviled workers in Imou State. He went there without gun. He went there without a single machete, but only to protest the neck of both Congresses frowned at what happened in Imou and resolved as follows. From 12 midnight today, that we are going to carry out a national action that is going to zero in on Imou State. There has to be effective 12 midnight today, then on Tuesday next week there is going to be a total nationwide strike effective Tuesday next week because as a last week we issued a directive, and in that directive we had some series of actions that are stated during and none of them as of today have been made.