Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour, Employment, and Productivity, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will not approve the newly proposed 65-year retirement age for Nigerian workers.
Recall that during the 2023 Workers’ Day celebrations in Abuja, the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, asked for a new retirement age for civil servants in the country.
The NLC boss had also called for a general review of core civil servants’ salaries in order to close the pay gap between other civil servants and those in other parts of the public sector.
He stated that the extension of years of service should be implemented in all sectors of the country’s public service.
We are, therefore, demanding that the age of retirement and length of service in the entire public service, including the civil service, be reviewed upward to 65 years of age and 40 years of service, he had said.
But speaking with The PUNCH on Monday, Keyamo stated that an increase in service years will be the call of the next administration.
He said:
The process to effect that change to 65 years (if it is accepted by the Federal Government) is a process that cannot be completed before the end of the tenure of Buhari. So, I guess the new administration will have to deal with that.