{"id":919547,"date":"2022-01-25T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/nlc-suspends-planned-protest-against-petrol-subsidy-removal\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:48:03","slug":"nlc-suspends-planned-protest-against-petrol-subsidy-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/nlc-suspends-planned-protest-against-petrol-subsidy-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Suspends Planned Protest Against Petrol Subsidy Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_665135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665135\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-665135 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2018_1large_Nigeria_Labour_Congress_NLC-5-600x319.jpg\" alt=\"NLC Suspends Planned Protest Against Petrol Subsidy Removal\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-665135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called off a planned nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>The protests were supposed to take place on January 27 and February 2.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, made the announcement to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the union made the decision during a meeting of its national executive council on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The suspension was predicated on the federal government\u2019s decision to cease subsidy removal on fuel, according to the NLC president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0BREAKING: FG Proposes Extension Of Fuel Subsidy Removal By 18 Months, Seeks To Amend PIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the decision to cease the protest, Wabba stated that members of the NLC would be demobilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the reversal and reapproach by government, the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress met this morning (Tuesday) virtually to consider the new position of the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe NEC after vigorous debates took a decision to suspend the planned nationwide protest scheduled for January 27, 2022, and the national protest scheduled for February 2, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLC The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called off a planned nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. The protests were supposed to take place on January 27 and February 2. The NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, made the announcement to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday. He claimed the union made the decision during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}