Public Servants Back FG’s N70,000 Transport Allowance For Workers

The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), commerce union facet, has thrown its weight behind the federal authorities’s approval of a N70,000 month-to-month transportation allowance for Nigerian public servants, describing the association as a welcome growth that may assist cushion the impression of rising transportation prices on staff.

The Council additionally defended the settlement reached with the federal authorities on October 27, 2026, dismissing objections by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and insisting that the negotiations had been performed by means of constructive engagement involving the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), JNPSNC and the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU).

The place was contained in a round signed by the nationwide secretary of JNPSNC, Comrade Gbenga Olowoyo, and addressed to nationwide presidents and normal secretaries of affiliated unions, in addition to chairmen and secretaries of state Joint Public Service Negotiating Councils.

Olowoyo stated the N70,000 transportation allowance can be paid to public servants for six months, starting from November 2026, to supply aid from the growing value of commuting to work.

He known as on state and native governments to undertake the association and complement the federal authorities’s intervention, arguing that staff on the subnational ranges additionally confronted the identical financial difficulties.

According to him, the negotiations that produced the settlement had been exhaustive, lasting greater than six hours earlier than each events reached a consensus on the assorted calls for offered by organised labour.

The round additional defined that the settlement secured the implementation of the long-delayed 40 per cent peculiar allowance, which is predicted to mirror the N70,000 nationwide minimal wage.

On the disagreement with the TUC, Olowoyo argued that the congress was not a part of the negotiations that produced the October 27 settlement, though he acknowledged its proper to specific an opinion on points affecting staff.

He maintained that the settlement was reached by events immediately concerned within the negotiations and shouldn’t be undermined by the place of an organisation that didn’t take part within the discussions.

The Council additionally challenged the TUC to barter the next transportation allowance if it believed the N70,000 accepted by the federal authorities was insufficient.

It stated any improved supply secured by the TUC would additional profit public servants.

The round additionally highlighted agreements reached on excellent welfare calls for within the well being sector, significantly the adjustment of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS), which well being staff had reportedly searched for 13 years.

He expressed confidence within the federal authorities’s dedication to the most recent settlement, commending the federal government, NLC, JNPSNC and JOHESU for reaching what he described as an association that positioned staff’ pursuits above union affiliations.

The round reads in elements, “The fee of (N70,000) seventy thousand naira transportation allowance to Nigerian staff is a welcome growth.

“The nationwide management of the JNPSNC has been inundated with anxieties by means of a number of calls in search of clarification on the settlement signed with the federal authorities which led to the approval of (N70,000) seventy thousand naira transportation allowance for all Public Servants in Nigeria and what triggered rejection of identical by the Trade Union Congress. (TUC )

“As a matter of reality, all of the objects contained within the settlement signed on the twenty seventh October,2026 was on account of constructive engagement and exhaustive negotiation at a gathering presided over by the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment Alhaji Dr Mohamed Maigari Dingyadi

“The meeting was not only tough but also took more than six hours before both the federal government and labour sides could enter into terms”.

“The clarification grew to become mandatory due to the place taken on the matter by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) that it rejected the accepted N70,000 transportation allowance of which TUC was by no means a part of the dialogue ( though, Trade Union Congress has express proper to specific its opinion on any matter the TUC is immediately concerned however not on what it was not a part of at any stage of the engagement or negotiation with the federal authorities)

“However, it will be highly commended that the Trade Union Congress can get a higher amount above N70,000 already agreed to by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) and Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) which will be an added benefit to public servants.”