Olaleye Idowu
Nigerian electricity workers under the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, suspended strike action on Thursday following the intervention of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu.
The suspension was conveyed in a Memorandum of Understanding between NUEE, the Senior Staff Association of Electrical and Allied Companies, the Management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, and the Ministry of Power, sighted by Urban Express News on Thursday.
This followed a Thursday meeting between the minister, TCN and the unions.
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.
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.
“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 October 2025.
“The two organisations (TCN & NISO) shall meet to evaluate the financial implications 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.
Earlier, NUEE Embarked On a Strike in a notice dated Wednesday, threatening the country’s fragile power supply.
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, not because of a national grid shutdown.
