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Terrible Situation As Aviation workers’ strike results in gridlocks around Lagos airport.

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  For over eight years, the conditions of service have not been implemented as the aviation agencies are functioning without governing boards."  Offices of various aviation agencies in Lagos were shut on Tuesday as aviation sector workers embarked on a warning strike, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offices shut were those of the Ministry of Aviation, the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority. Members of the unions laid siege to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, resulting in gridlocks around the airport and its environs. There was a heavy presence of security agents at strategic points in the area to prevent a breakdown of law and order as unionists chanted solidarity songs. The Secretary-General of the Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals, Abdul Saidu, expressed disappointment that conditions of service in the sector had yet to be implemented after eight y