29TH JUNE IN NIGERIAN HISTORY: Negotiations resumes between Lagos State Government and striking workers over minimum wage

In year 2000, many state governments refused to pay the Federal government recommended minimum wage leading to many industrial actions. 

The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) on the strikes by labour and actions of State Governors in 2000 reports that the country was gripped by a strike wave over the level at which a new minimum wage should be set. 

The action began with a strike by civil servants in Lagos state, and quickly spread throughout the country, in which Forty-seven thousand public sector workers were on strike for two weeks in Lagos, with refuse dumps not cleared, water taps running dry and health services collapsing. 

Civil servants in at least 12 states also joined the indefinite strikes before it was called off in July, 2000.