•Kogi State governor, Usman Ododo Kogi State governor, Ahmed Ododo, has approved a minimum wage of seventy-two thousand five hundred naira for Kogi civil servants, effective immediately. The governor also suspended the tax burden on the approved sum for one year, reports The PUNCH. Ododo made this known today after signing the agreement on the...
•Governor Alex Otti of Abia State Abia State Government has said it would commence the implementation of the new minimum wage from October 2024. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, who disclosed this in Umuahia during a press briefing on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting, said the payment would cut across all [&h...
The committee on consequential salary adjustments recently constituted by the federal government arising from the new Minimum Wage Act 2024 has concluded its assignment with both parties’ signing a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU). The federal government penultimate Friday formally inaugurated a 16-member consequential adjustments in salaries ...
•Nigerian workers The Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for civil servants met yesterday as regards the new minimum wage template and agreed that the effective date for implementation of new minimum wage be set at July 29,2024. This is according to a Memorandum of Understanding issued at the end of the meeting which was [&hell...
•Tinubu and Organised Labour leaders The Nigeria Labour Congress has said that President Bola Tinubu betrayed Organised Labour, using the price of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly called petrol, as bait. The Organised Labour stated that at the negotiation which informed the acceptance of N70,000 by the organised labour, President Tinubu offered ...
Teachers in public primary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have declared an indefinite strike due to the refusal of the six Area Council chairmen to pay arrears of their minimum wage and meet other obligations. Comrade Abdullahi Shafa, FCT Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), announced the decision, which was part [&...
•Governor Bago Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State says his administration will not hesitate to implement the N70,000 minimum wage as far as resources were available. He said this in an interview with newsmen after declaring open the 2024 quadrennial state delegate conference of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) in Minna, ...
In a landmark move, President Bola Tinubu signed into law a new national minimum wage of N70,000 on Monday, July 29, 2024, up from the initial N30,000. This followed a series of meetings that failed to reach an agreement between the Organised Labour, private sectors, and federal government representatives who made up the Tripartite Committee, ...
•Tinubu (middle) and Organised Labour leaders Organised Labour has called on Nigerians to be patient with the Federal and State Governments following the delay in the implementation of the new minimum wage. This was even as the workers’ union absolved the federal government of any wrongdoing, saying it would be unfair to conclude that there [&...
•Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has approved a new monthly minimum wage of N70,000 for workers on both state and local government payrolls. The decision was made during a meeting this afternoon with leaders of Organised Labour, reports The Nation. The state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Em...
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