Osun Workers Begin Three-Day Warning Strike Over Withheld LG Allocations

Workers in Osun State have commenced a three-day warning strike over the continued withholding of local government allocations.

The strike, which began at midnight on Sunday, is expected to end on Wednesday.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, says the allocations have been withheld since February 2025, leaving local government workers and pensioners facing hardship.

The NLC had issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal and Osun State Governments on October 28, demanding a resolution of the crisis, but the ultimatum expired without a resolution.

While addressing journalists in Osogbo, the NLC Chairman in Osun State, Christopher Arapasopo, said the strike is in solidarity with local government workers under the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE.

He expressed concern over the threat to workers’ cooperative deductions, allowances, pensions, gratuities and other legitimate entitlements.

Arapasopo appealed to residents to understand the action, insisting that the strike was not intended to punish the public but to draw attention to the plight of affected workers.

The organised labour is demanding the immediate release of outstanding allocations, protection of workers’ entitlements and a lasting resolution of the dispute.