Ogun State Students Writing Exams Turned Back Home Amid NLC Strike

 Reality News understands that the affected students were writing their third-term examinations until the strike action was declared.

Students in different schools in Ogun State were turned back as the ongoing strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) shut down activities in the state.

SaharaReporters understands that the affected students were writing their third-term examinations until the strike action was declared.

Some of the schools confirmed to have been affected are "Salawu Abiola Comprehensive High School, Osiele" and "Muslim High School, in Isolu." Other schools in the state were also said to have been affected by the development.

"The students have been turned back from school, they were told that there is no school today due to the ongoing strike action by the Nigerian Labour Congress," a resident told SaharaReporters.

Earlier, the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) threw its weight behind the striking workers.

According to the party, the indefinite strike action declared in the state is "not only lawful and a legitimate right."

The party's chairman in the state, Abayomi Tella, stated this in a statement signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Kayode Adebayo.

"Our great party, on the strength of our robust relationship with the workforce, makes bold to align fully with the decision of the organized labour to suspend their services indefinitely starting 12 midnight, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, until justice is served and the life savings of Ogun State workers are secured from continuous plunder by the Dapo Abiodun-led administration."

“We equally commend the call on all professional associations, including the Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria, to stand united in this just cause."

"Our great party holds that this industrial action is not only lawful. It is the legitimate right of the workers to press home their rights. It is a moral necessity, and we warn Mr. Abiodun and his gang of incompetent friends masquerading as a government not to resort to intimidating or blackmailing the dedicated workforce in Ogun State," the statement read.

"What Ogun workers deserve is fairness, accountability, and justice, not propaganda, empty promises, or vindictive threats.”

Earlier, SaharaReporters reported that the Ogun State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and organised labour directed all civil and public servants in the state to withdraw their services indefinitely over unresolved issues surrounding the Ogun State Pension Reform Law.

The resolution was reached at the General Parliament of Ogun State Civil/Public Service Workers held on Monday, 14th July, 2025, at the Arcade Ground, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The directive takes full effect from 12 a.m., Tuesday, 15th July, 2025, with a stern warning that any staff who disobeys does so at their own peril.

"All members are directed to withdraw their services till further notice. Any staff who flouts this directive does so at his or her own risk and the Congress will not claim any responsibility towards such staff.”

“We expect the government to as soon as possible call for dialogue on the demands of the teeming workers of the State Civil/Public Service. We shall continue to keep us updated on further developments. A workers united, can never be defeated."

The NLC and Organised Labour, in a statement, explained that the indefinite suspension followed an emergency Statewide Congress where workers voted to suspend work over the “dysfunctional Ogun State Pension Reform Law [OGSPRL] 2008, amended 2013,” which established a Contributory Pension Scheme.

“Practically, in its seventeen [17] years of its passage as a law, from all indicators, the CPS has, at best, been practiced in complete breach of the OGSPRL 2008.”

“Only 34 months (i.e., 3 years less 2 months) of the expected 204 months (17 years) of the deductions from both sides, i.e., the State/Local Governments, were remitted to the Pension Funds Administrators.”

“In the last 14 years, and still counting, monthly deductions only from workers’ salaries have been diligently consistent without remittance to their PFAs.”

"We recalled of the widely publicised Adekunle Hassan Pension Reform Committee set up back in 2022. Neither its findings nor its recommendations were released. 

“Nor was there any definitive concrete step taken to address the issue. Countless correspondences on it were written and delivered to the state authorities with no single response.”