After Organized Labour paused their nationwide strike, flights at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammad Airport’s local terminal have resumed.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) announced on Tuesday that the strike, which began on Monday, has been suspended.
The strike had stopped all flights across the country due to aviation unions joining the protest.
However, airlines are now starting to operate again after being grounded for a day.
Reporters from Daily Trust visited MMA2 on Tuesday at 11:00 am and saw many passengers waiting for news of the strike’s end.
With the strike on hold for a week, flights are gradually resuming.
At the time of reporting, a ValueJet flight to Abuja was about to depart, and another was planned for Port Harcourt.
The airport was still quiet after the strike ended, but operations are slowly returning to normal.
In another statement, the General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Ocheme Aba, confirmed that all union members are back at work.
he said,
“Due to the agreement with the presidency, the strike will be relaxed for one week starting from now to enable the tripartite committee concluded deliberations on the minimum wage negotiation so, flight operations will resume now, have resumed actually because all the blockages have been removed,”