By our reporter 21.9.2026
Civil servants under the aegis of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu needs to address the skyrocketing price of petrol as this was causing workers and their dependents more suffering.
According to the civil servants, petrol per litre should be pegged at N500, instead of the N1,450 it is currently selling depending on location. The workers are also proposing a new minimum wage of N500,000 and urges government to negotiate before the January 2027 elections.
“It has dawned on Nigerian workers that the provision of palliatives such as bags of rice, Indomie, vegetable oil, garri, among other edible foods, is as good as weaponising Nigerians with poverty because it is a Pyrrhic intervention which is unsustainable, inaccessible to the majority of Nigeria’s population and also limited to political cronies,” the JNPSNC said Monday in statement.
“Consequent upon the above, it is preferable that the Federal Government should provide an intervention that will trickle down to all Nigerians by making fuel available at an affordable amount as low as N500 (five hundred Naira), the amount at which fuel was being sold when the subsidy was first removed in the year 2023.
As a matter of reality, the current hardship being faced by the hapless Nigerian workers is caused by the astronomical increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to as much as N1,430.00, or more per one litre (this is a killing amount),”
Skyrocketing price of petrol...workers demand relief.