The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has suspended the strike action it embarked on Wednesday following the intervention of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu.
The suspension was conveyed in a Memorandum of Understanding between NUEE, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, the Management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, and the Ministry of Power.
This followed a Thursday meeting between the minister, TCN and the unions.
Adelabu was represented at the meeting by the Director of Distribution Services and the Director Planning, Research and Statistics of the ministry.
The MoU stated that TCN and the Nigeria Integrated System Operator shall meet to evaluate the financial implications of the report and prepare an implementation plan to be discussed with the unions.
“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 from the month of October 2025.
“The two organisations (TCN & NISO) shall meet to evaluate the financial implication of the report and prepare an implementation plan to be discussed with the honourable minister and the unions.
“The two in-house unions will reconvene in another meeting with the management of TCN and NISO to resolve other issues accordingly.
“NERC [is] to expedite actions on the review of the tariffs of TCN and NISO to enable implementation of the report.
“No employee will be victimised on account of participation in the industrial action.
“Based on the above, the Union agreed to suspend their action to allow these resolutions to be activated.”
The MoU was signed by NUEE, SSAEAC, the Managing Director of TCN/NISO, and officials of the Ministry of Power and those of Labour.
The NUEE had commenced an indefinite strike on Wednesday after the expiration of its ultimatum to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on staff welfare issues.
The directive was conveyed in a memo on Wednesday, signed by Dominic Igwebike, acting general secretary of NUEE.
The issues include the non-implementation of the national minimum wage, casualisation of workers, a lack of working tools and materials, non-payment of staff salaries since April 2025, and a lack of operational vehicles.
The union further accused the TCN of failing to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) since 2021, neglecting issues arising from its unbundling, and defaulting on the payment of retirement benefits.
“It is unfortunate that the TCN Management has decided to handle these issues with kid gloves and lack of regards for the hard-working staff of TCN,” the union said.
“This, they have displayed without any defined roadmap(s) to addressing them.
“We cannot continue to fold our arms while we watch our rights being vehemently violated and Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) going down the drain.
“To this end, the Union is compelled to withdraw its services.
“Members are hereby directed to withdraw services to such time that the Management is ready to discharge its obligations towards the workforce,” the earlier statement read.
