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The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress has threatened to call a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government failed to stop the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The NLC in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna, on Wednesday, said that it was unfortunate that the government had not taken the expected steps to stop the ongoing strike that had crippled academic activities in public universities. The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar and the Acting General Secretary of the Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, accused the Federal Government of sponsoring protests against ASUU instead of resolving the lingering crisis. They warned that the NLC would not hesitate to call out Nigerian workers to protest across the country if the present situation was not changed by the Federal Government. Omar and Uyot also stated that the NLC had taken a decision to intervene in the crisis rocking the universit

  http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/national-confab-leads-disintegration-says-garba-nuj-president/#!prettyPhoto People have agitated for this; called for this because of some contentious issues raised. Perhaps, based on this, Mr. President decided to conceed and said let us talk. Those talking of a sovereign national conference should know, it is not possible because if you are talking of a sovereign national conference, the whole polity has to be dissolved and that is not acceptable to me as a person because this is a democracy we have fought very hard to achieve. So, it has to be either a national conference or dialogue as the president has called it. Some have said it is diversionary. I am surprised that even those that have been agitating for this national conference are now against it. Some say it is not timely because it is close to election but whatever it is depends on how you are able to arrange and plan. Nobody is praying that Nigeri