The resolution was reached at the General Parliament of Ogun State Civil/Public Service Workers held on Monday, 14th July, 2025, at the Arcade Ground, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The Ogun State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and organised labour has directed all civil and public servants in the state to withdraw their services indefinitely over unresolved issues surrounding the Ogun State Pension Reform Law. 

The resolution was reached at the General Parliament of Ogun State Civil/Public Service Workers held on Monday, 14th July, 2025, at the Arcade Ground, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The directive takes full effect from 12am, Tuesday 15th July, 2025, with a stern warning that any staff who disobeys does so at their own peril.

“All members are directed to withdraw their services till further notice. Any staff who flouts this directive does so at his or her own risk and the Congress will not claim any responsibility towards such staff.”

“We expect the government to as soon as possible call for dialogue on the demands of the teeming workers of the State Civil/Public Service. We shall continue to keep us updated on further developments. A workers united, can never be defeated." 

The NLC and Organised Labour in a statement explained that the indefinite suspension followed an emergency Statewide Congress where workers voted to suspend work over the “dysfunctional Ogun State Pension Reform Law [OGSPRL] 2008, amended 2013” which established a Contributory Pension Scheme.

“Practically, in its seventeen [17] years of Its passage as a law, from all indicators, the CPS has, at best, being practiced in complete breach of the OGSPRL 2008.”

“Only 34 months (l.e 3 years less of 2 months) of the expected 204 months (17 years) of the deductions from both sides, l.e. the State/Local Governments were remitted to the Pension Funds Administrators.”

“In the last 14 years, and still counting, monthly deductions only from workers salaries have been diligently consistent without remittance to their PFAs!”

“We recalled of the widely publicised Adekunle Hassan Pension Reform Committee set up back in 2022. Neither its findings nor its recommendations were released. 

“Nor was there any definitive concrete step taken to address the issue, Countless correspondences on it were written and delivered to the State authorities with no single response.”