Electricity workers suspended their strike after signing an MoU with the government and power sector operators, agreeing to review pending issues in October.
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended its strike action after the intervention of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu.
The suspension was confirmed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed Thursday between NUEE, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the Ministry of Power, DAILY POST reports. The decision followed a meeting between union leaders, TCN management, and representatives of the ministry.
According to the MoU, TCN and the Nigeria Integrated System Operator (NISO) will evaluate the financial implications of a committee report and prepare an implementation plan to be considered in October. “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,” it stated. The agreement also assured that no worker would be victimised for participating in the action.
Electricity consumers in Abuja earlier experienced outages, though officials attributed this to distribution challenges, not a grid collapse.