•Tinubu The federal government has commended state governors who have begun implementing the new N70,000 minimum wage, urging those yet to do so to take immediate action. This initiative, emphasised as a priority for President Bola Tinubu’s administration, aims to address the rising cost of living across the country, reports Nigerian Tribune. ...
•Governors Not less than 20 states have either started paying the new minimum wage or will commence payment from this week. After negotiations by the government, the Organised Private Sector and the Labour Centres, the minimum wage was raised from N30,000 to N70,000, reports The Nation. The negotiations, spanning many weeks, produced an agreem...
•Chukwuma Soludo The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has announced the immediate payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 for workers in the state. The governor stated that the least paid worker in Anambra State will go home with nothing less than N70,000, even as, it could be more ranging between N78,000 to […]
The Niger State Government has approved a new minimum wage of ₦80,000 for civil servants, which is to commence in November 2024. This announcement was made by the state governor, Umaru Bago, following a lengthy negotiation between the state government and the leadership of the state’s labour union, reports Channels TV. Governor Bago assured wo...
•Governor Peter Mbah Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah has approved the sum of N80,000 as the minimum wage for Enugu State civil servants, effective immediately. Governor Mbah who disclosed this on his X handle today said “I have just approved a minimum wage of N80,000 for Enugu workers, effective October 2024. “We appreciate the hard […]...
•Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq The Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has approved the new minimum wage of N70,000 for the state government’s employees. The Commissioner for Finance, Hajia Hauwa Nuru, in a statement said the approved wage will be implemented across the state public service with immediate effect from October 2024, ...
•Governor Fubara The Rivers State Government has approved a minimum wage of N85,000 for civil servants in the state. The Head of Service of the state, George Nwaeke, announced that the approval was granted by Governor Siminalayi Fubara during a closed-door meeting with labour leaders and senior government officials. Following the meeting, Nwae...
•Rhodes-Vivour and Governor Sanwo-Olu Gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has described the recent increase to N85,000 announced by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as unrealistic. In a series of tweets today, although he commended the increase as a move in the right direction, he, ...
•Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe) In July 2024, President Bola Tinubu approved an increase in the minimum wage for Nigerian workers from N30,000 to N70,000, reports The PUNCH. However, the implementation across states has been gradual, with some still yet to adopt the new minimum wage....
•Governors Sanwo-Olu and Oborevwori The Lagos and Delta states’ governments have promised to pay N85,000 and N77,500 as the minimum wage for their workers. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced the new minimum wage, which is N15,000 higher than the N70,000 approved by the federal government in July. The governor announced the new m...
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