The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its five days warning strike in Kaduna State.

The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, Wednesday evening, said the decision “is to honour the invitation of the Federal Government on Thursday to mediate in the dispute between labour and the Kaduna State Government”.

Earlier in the day, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige waded into the ongoing face-off between the Kaduna State government and labour unions by inviting both parties to a reconciliation meeting.

Ngige’s intervention comes three days after the NLC started a protest following the disengagement of over seven thousand civil servants at the state and local government levels by the Kaduna State government.

The strike has paralysed critical sectors of the economy in the state and the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai had declared the NLC Chairman and other leaders wanted for economic sabotage and attacks on public infrastructure in state under the Kaduna State Miscellaneous Offences Act.