The Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Oyo State Council, on Monday, threatened indefinite protest against the managements of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, and Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo, for defying Governor Seyi Makinde’s directive on pension increases.
The state secretary of the union, Segun Abatan, who announced this during a press briefing held at the council’s Secretariat, Agbarigo, in Ibadan, the state capital, warned that pensioners would commence sustained protests from Tuesday, August 18, 2026, if their demands remained unmet.
Abatan accused some chief executive officers of state-owned tertiary institutions of placing themselves above the authority of Governor Makinde.
He recalled that the governor had, in January 2025, following consultations with the union, approved a minimum monthly pension of N25,000 for the least paid pensioners in the state with effect from January 2025.
The NUP secretary further explained that the governor also directed that all outstanding pension increases, including the 33 per cent pension increase approved in 2010, the 2019 consequential adjustment, the 20 per cent pension increase effective January 2024, and N17,500 out of the approved N32,000 increase effective August 2024, should be incorporated into the pensions of eligible retirees.
