Action causes long queues in Enugu filling stations
Some commercial banks, staff of University of Port Harcourt, public schools, courts,  yesterday, complied with the  national  industrial action by the Nigerian  Labour  Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress(TUC).

Also, the judiciary complex, comprising state High Court, Court of Appeal and other courts, was shut, leaving litigants stranded.

Rivers State Secretariat in Port Harcourt was also locked, while some secondary and primary school students were sent back  home  by 10 a.m. by their teachers,  who were forced to obey the  directive after arriving at their workplaces.

Some filling stations were shut down while those selling petroleum products increased their pump price to about N750 per litre.

Some banks in the old Port Harcourt township axis to Azikiwe road were shut but banks along Ikwerre and Aba road were opened for business.

Speaking on the development, a Port Harcourt based lawyer explained that the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, received notice of the strike late on Tuesday.

He stated that about 7a.m., yesterday, JUSON started implementing the strike, saying even the National Industrial Court was affected. He condemned the attack on the NLC National Chairman in Imo State.

He said: “This morning, we came here to see that the courts are shut. Things should be done properly if we want to move forward as a country.”

MEANWHILE, there were long queues in few fuel stations that opened for business within the Enugu metropolis, even as other stations closed shop in compliance with the ongoing nationwide strike.