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Federal, state and local government workers have begun a three-day nationwide warning strike over hardship and the failure of the Federal Government to address their demands.
The action is being led by the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, which said the strike became necessary to press home concerns over the hardship confronting workers and vulnerable Nigerians.
The council had on September 29 threatened a three-day warning strike should its demands for the petrol price to be cut to N500 a litre, a wage award and other measures to cushion hardship not be met or addressed by President Bola Tinubu during his Independence Anniversary Address on October 1.
The JNPSNC leadership expressed disappointment that President Tinubu, in his Independence Anniversary Address, did not heed the demand for the pump price of petrol to be slashed to N500, from the current N1,400 to N2,000 per litre depending on location, or announce immediate measures to ameliorate the socio-economic hardship caused by government policies.
The directive to proceed on the warning strike is contained in a circular by JNPSNC’s National Secretary (Trade Union side), Olowoyo Gbenga, dated October 1, 2026, to the national presidents and general secretaries, state chairmen and secretaries of affiliate unions, titled Declaration of three-day Warning Strike; action with immediate effect.
According to the circular, the strike will start with effect from midnight of Friday, October 2, 2026 to Sunday, October 4, 2026.
The council directed all public servants in the services of federal, state and local governments to join the warning strike, stating that an injury to one is an injury to all and that workers, their dependants and vulnerable Nigerians are groaning terribly under the present economic hardship.
