Nigeria suffers national power outage as labour unions shut

Flights grounded as unions protest against failure of President Tinubu’s government to agree minimum wage

Nigeria’s main labour unions have shut down the national grid and disrupted airline operations as they began an indefinite strike over the government’s failure to agree a minimum wage.

The strike is the fourth by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), two of the country’s biggest unions, since President Bola Tinubu took office last year.