‘N500/litre fuel or N500,000 minimum wage’ – Workers write Tinubu, make fresh demands

Civil servants nether the aegis of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Trade Union Side, person written to President Bola Tinubu, seeking an contiguous involution to tackle the worsening economical hardship facing workers.

In a missive addressed to the President, the workers urged the Federal Government to stabilise the terms of petrol astatine N500 per litre, o.k. an contiguous Wage Award and upwardly reappraisal salaries and allowances crossed the nationalist service.

The workers arsenic demanded the contiguous constitution of a committee to negociate a caller National Minimum Wage up of January 2027.

According to the workers, the caller summation successful substance prices to N1,430 per litre and supra successful immoderate locations had further worsened the cost-of-living crisis.

They gave the Federal Government until Wednesday, September 30, 2026, to instrumentality enactment connected their demands, informing that the prevailing hardship was creating palpable hostility among workers and Nigerians.

The workers added that the removal of substance subsidy 3 years agone had triggered an as...