The Edo State Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress has resolved to fully implement the directive of the national leadership of the union to protest against insecurity across the country on December 17, 2025.
The decision followed the adoption of the NLC National Executive Council communiqué issued on December 4, 2025.
The Edo NLC SEC also aligned with the NEC in condemning what it described as the inability of the Nigerian State to effectively confront the country’s “hydra-headed security problems.”
As part of the resolution, the SEC directed the Edo NLC State Administrative Council (SAC), also known as the Caretaker Committee, to activate the necessary structures to mobilise workers and coordinate the planned nationwide protest against insecurity scheduled for December 17.
The SEC-in-session further joined the NEC in criticising the Nigerian State over persistent challenges in the tertiary education sector and faulted the government for the ongoing industrial dispute in the health sector, particularly the industrial action by the Health and Other Health Services Union (HOHESU).
These resolutions were reached at a meeting of the State Executive Council held on December 15, 2025, in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
According to the resolutions signed by the Chairman of the Edo State NLC Caretaker Committee, Prof. Lewis Monday Igbafen, “the State Executive Council (SEC) of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) met today, Monday 15th December, 2025 to receive the report of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC held at the NLC Sub-Secretariat, Yaba, Lagos on Thursday, 4th December, 2025.
“The meeting was attended by seventeen (17) affiliate unions of the NLC. In particular, the SEC in-session was extensively briefed on the serious concern expressed by the NLC NEC on the worsening and debilitating state of insecurity in the country.
“The SEC-in-Session also received reports and updates on the crisis in the tertiary education sector, the industrial dispute in the health sector, especially the HOHESU’s industrial action and the resuscitation of the Labour-Civil Society Coalition (LASCO).
“The report on the state of the Labour Party was also received and discussed.
“The SEC reviewed issues affecting the Edo State Council of the NLC and, by extension, workers in Edo State.
“It further received the report of 2025 NLC Harmattan School held in Abuja from the 23rd to the 29th of November, 2025. After exhaustive deliberations, the SEC-in-Session noted and resolved as follows:
“It noted the resuscitation of the Labour-Civil Society Coalition (LASCO).
“SEC-in-Session further reviewed the state of the Edo State NLC and commended the Igbafen-Led Caretaker Committee for its efforts to reposition the NLC in the State. Consequently, it passed a vote of confidence on the Caretaker Committee.
“Finally, on the way forward to establish peace in the Edo State NLC, the SEC-in-Session appealed to the State Government to collaborate with the NLC to depoliticize the state NLC.”
