The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has summoned an emergency meeting with the National Union of Electricity Employees concerning the nationwide blackout .The action started Wednesday , withdrawing their services from Kaduna Regional Headquarters of the Transmission Company of Nigeria with the Union’s National Leadership directive.
The Labour and Employment minister emergency meeting was aimed at resolving their grievance as the meeting starts by 4 according to a source which is now ongoing.“The Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, has invited the electricity workers, who have shut down their services nationwide, for an urgent meeting in Abuja. The meeting will hold at 4 pm today,” the source said.
The workers are protesting concerning the nonpayment of outstanding arrears owed to former workers of the now-defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, suspension of conditions of service and career path for workers and the directive by the TCN board to conduct promotion interviews for acting principal managers who are moving to Assistant General Managers.The minister of Power , Abubakar Aliyu said the workers doesn’t have any issues concerning his ministry but with the head of service. 
TCN Kaduna office which oversees operations in Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara said it will resume operations only after the Federal Government meets all their demands. The organised labour had directed workers in the power sector to shut down and commence an indefinite strike over pending issues with the TCN.
“Due to the ongoing nationwide picketing of Transmission Stations by the NUEE, we are currently experiencing disruption of power supply as most stations within our network have been shut down.“Kindly bear with us as we await an amicable resolution by the relevant stakeholders,” Ikeja Electric announced in a statement on its Twitter page.
Aliyu, however, assured Nigerians that the government has “all the ingredients” to solve the supply challenge soon.
