The Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, and Trade Union Congress in Rivers State have taken to the streets to participate in the protest declared by the national bodies.
The protesters came out in their numbers hon Wednesday morning besieging the major Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway in the protest over the removal of fuel subsidy.
According to Vanguard, in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, protesters were out, amidst tight security.
Meanwhile, as organised labour officially embarked on the protests across the country with the hashtag #letthepoorbreath, decrying that the palliatives rolled out by President Bola Tinubu in his nationwide broadcast on Monday night, were not enough to mitigate the effect of Nigerians’ pains.