Employees of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) after several meetings and negotiations with the management of the corporation, called off their three days warning strike which commenced on Thursday. The Railway workers may have reached an agreement with the management before suspending the three-day warning strike meant to demand improved staff welfare.
The workers shut down passenger and cargo train services of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) during the strike, which eventually lasted one day.
Employees at Idu station, Abuja, had sealed the station, conducting mass protest with display of placards to communicate their griefs and demands.
At the Mobolaji Johnson Train Station, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, employees gathered for protest, displaying placards which expressed their protest and demands.
Activities were crippled at the various railway stations across the country from Abuja to Lagos, the Professor Wole Soyinka railway station in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the Warri-Itakpe station, Kaduna, during the period of the industrial action which was suspended a day after it commenced.
The employees had held several meetings with the Nigeria Railway Corporation Board in Abuja and other stakeholders in Lagos on Friday, which culminated into the suspension of the national strike.