Banks join NLC strike in Calabar

Some banks in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, were closed Friday as the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) entered its third day.
However, other banks were open for business.

The closed banks had notices by the NLC calling for workers to stay at home until the hike in petrol price and electricity tariff is reversed.
The leadership of the NLC in the state accompanied by some state and federal workers Friday continued its march through major streets in Calabar to register their protest.
Government offices and public schools remained shut.
The NLC had on Thursday gone round markets in Calabar urging them to shut down.
Led by its chairman, Comrade John Ushie, markets visited included Watt, Etim Edem, Bedwell, Chamley and Bogobiri.
Ushie addressing the market men and women said the protest was not to ask government to increase their salaries but for the betterment of all Nigerians by reducing the price of fuel.
He enjoined them to join in shutting down the economy as that will make the government to change its “inhuman decision which has made prices of goods and commodities to increase geometrically.”
But it was observed yesterday that the markets were open and operating as usual.