[BREAKING] May Day: NLC demands 65-year retirement age for civil servants

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday demanded the upward review of retirement age for all categories of civil servants.

The National President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, made this demand during the ongoing May Day celebration in Eagle Square, Abuja.

While presenting some of the demands of the NLC, Ajaero said, “It is imperative to extend the revised retirement age of 65 years or 40 years of service currently enjoyed by teachers, health professionals, and judges to all public servants.”

In 2023, Ajaero told The PUNCH that the NLC would do everything within its power to ensure that it dialogues with President Bola Tinubu on the matter.

Already, teachers under the employment of the government at all levels are enjoying the implementation of a new retirement age, an act signed into law by the former president, Muhammadu Buhari.