This was in spite of a court injunction restraining them from carrying out same action, especially after the federal government, in a meeting with the union leaders on Tuesday night, had agreed to have a committee to review the fuel pump price and the minimum wage issue.
There was an impediment on their movement in Lagos as police officers tried to stop them from moving towards Airport Road in Ikeja area of the state, but the unionists told the security operatives that there were supposed to support and not stop them in the struggle.
And even when a vast majority of Nigerians decided to ignore the industrial action and stay at home, the protesters insisted that their demonstration on the first day for sensitisation of Nigerians.
To compound matters, only a handful of states complied with the directives of NLC's national body as there have been reports of discord within the caucus of the union but the union insisted Wednesday, that their members would storm the streets on Thursday until their requests have been granted by the federal government.
"There will be no work tomorrow (Thursday) because we are all in this together and it is because of the people that we are on the streets.
"Believe me, we shall be more than this number tomorrow because other members will join us. We are not alone in this struggle, it is about the suffering masses, the oppressed, the downtrodden," one of the union leaders told NAIJ.com during the first day of the protest.
In the statement signed by Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC's secretary general, the union added: "No level of comfort today or primordial sentiments should blind us to the cruel realities of the increase in the pump price of the petroleum products as what we are seeing is just the beginning."
The unionists have since asked their members and other Nigerians to converge at Berger roundabout in Lagos on Thursday morning, but there were no details from the meeting point as at the time of putting this article up.
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