Mr. Ugbo who had held the position in an interim capacity is a legal practitioner and infrastructure regulations specialist with extensive experience in electricity industry reform and privatization.
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The committee would discuss the minimum wage and modalities of implementing it. It would also look at the issue of allocation of the N500 billion palliative fund provided for in 2016 budget which labour wanted to monitor how it is disbursed.
A faction of the NLC, led by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, had insisted on going ahead with the planned nationwide strike over the purported removal of subsidy on petrol and the hike in the price of the commodity, even as it faced mass defections among its ranks and despite a court order against such an action on Tuesday.
Already, there are signs that workers in the private sector would not participate in the planned strike action beginning on Wednesday, a factor which may greatly undermine the protest of the new price regime.