Nigeria’s airports shall be closed for 2 days beginning Monday as aviation staff launch their second strike this yr in protest of working situations and pay.
In an announcement dated Friday, the unions that characterize pilots, engineers, management tower operators, and different airport staff introduced that they might skip work on Monday and Tuesday attributable to unpaid arrears and the federal authorities’s choice to tear down some aviation companies’ Lagos workplaces to make method for airport enlargement.
The Union threatened ensue an indefinite strike ought to the present strike fail to attain the specified outcomes.
The group additionally deplored different issues the business is going through, together with poor amenities, jet gas shortages that always floor home flights and a scarcity of overseas foreign money that has seen worldwide carriers failing to repatriate their ticket gross sales.