The Nigeria electricity workers strike was effectively brought to an end on Thursday as workers under the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) suspended their strike action following the intervention of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu.
The suspension was outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding signed by NUEE, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, the management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the Ministry of Power.
This development followed a meeting held on Thursday between the minister, TCN representatives, and the union leaders, as part of efforts to resolve the ongoing Nigeria electricity workers strike, according to a document obtained from a reliable source.
Adelabu was represented at the meeting by the Director of Distribution Services and the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics of the Federal Ministry of Power, as discussions continued to resolve the Nigeria electricity workers strike.
Consequently, the suspension of the strike action is part of the MoU between the parties involved.
The MoU stated that TCN and the Nigeria Integrated System Operator shall meet to evaluate the financial implications of the report and prepare an implementation plan to be discussed with the unions, as part of efforts to address the Nigeria electricity workers strike.
“The unions honour the minister’s request to look at the committee’s report by the 6th/7th October 2025 for consideration of the implementation from the month of October 2025.
“The two organisations (TCN & NISO) shall meet to evaluate the financial implication of the report and prepare an implementation plan to be discussed with the honourable minister and the unions.
“The two in-house unions will reconvene in another meeting with the management of TCN and NISO to resolve other issues accordingly;
“NERC [is] to expedite actions on the review of the tariffs of TCN and NISO to enable implementation of the report.
“No employee will be victimised on account of participation in the industrial action.
“Based on the above, the Union agreed to suspend their action to allow these resolutions to be activated,” the MoU signed by NUEE, SSAEAC, the Managing Director of TCN/NISO, and the Ministry of Power and Labour stated.
It was earlier reported that NUEE embarked on a strike in a notice dated Wednesday, threatening the country’s fragile power supply, marking the beginning of the Nigeria electricity workers strike.
Reacting to the development, the President of the Nigerian Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo, said the outage in parts of Abuja and its environs was due to an operational challenge by the distribution company, and not connected to a national grid shutdown or the Nigeria electricity workers strike.
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