Labour threatens showdown with FG over unpaid hazard allowance

August 26, 2026

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

Organised Labour through the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, has threatened a showdown with the Federal Government over the failure to implement an approved occupational hazard allowance for agricultural professionals in the public service, nearly two years after approval.

The council, in a fresh letter to the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, expressed dissatisfaction over what it described as an “unnecessary delay” in issuing the circular required to give effect to the payment of the allowance.