News reaching us that all financial institutions have informed the public that financial services will be temporarily unavailable on September 5 and 6 2023.
The National Union Of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, today, has issued a statement that says all banks will be shut down on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th September 2023.
According to the statement, the notice is in line with the Nigeria Labour Congress’ resolution to a two days strike action, which was made after the National Executive council meeting (NEC) that happened on Thursday, 31 August 2023.
“In line with the communique issued after the meeting of National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held on Thursday 31 August2023 that all affiliates should direct all its members to commence two days withdrawal of services from Tuesday & Wednesday the 5 & 6 September2023
“The directive is imperative to get the needed attention of the government and warn it off its new found love of meddling in the internal affairs of unions rather than address the punishing economic circumstances we find ourselves in.
“We hereby direct all our organs to comply with this directive by ensuring all our members stay off duties for the two days.” it read
The statement was signed by the General secretary of the Union, Mohammed I. Sheikh.