…Disrupt domestic flights
The Organised Labour yesterday disrupted commercial activities nationwide, as they commenced their nationwide strike, shutting down the national grid and disrupting domestic flights across the nation.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN), which shut down the national grid, confirmed the development in a press statement signed by its GM, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah.
According to the document, the national grid was shut down at about 2.19am yesterday morning, said other transmission substations that were shut down include the Ganmo, Benin, Ayede, Olorunsogo, Akangba and Osogbo Transmission sub-stations.
?The TCN has however given the assurance to make effort to recover and stabilise the grid to enable the restoration of normal bulk transmission of electricity to distribution load centres nationwide.
Domestic flights across the nation also came to a complete standstill due to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) strike.
Acting on directives from the NLC union leaders actively enforced the withdrawal of aviation services. At the local terminal of the Lagos airport, both entry and exit gates are locked, leaving passengers who arrived as early as 6 a.m. stranded outside the terminal.
A similar scenario unfolded at the privately managed Terminal-2, where unions blocked the gates, preventing entry with canopies mounted by the gate, singing solidarity songs and playing loud music from speakers.
Security officials were seen present to maintain order, while aviation workers and a few passengers who had to return home were among those in the vicinity.
?The headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN), along with the annexes of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), were also locked.
Union leaders reportedly instructed their members to remain on duty for international flights already en-route to Nigeria until 0000 hours today, Tuesday.
