The federal government has announced readiness to begin the new minimum wage payment to civil servants. This development was disclosed by the spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa, today, reports Nigerian Tribune. While addressing journalist, he stated that the employees under the federal governmen...
•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 federal government has said it will backdate the payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 to July 29, 2024. The Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for Civil Servants has reached an agreement to implement the new minimum wage on July 29, 2024. According to Punch, this was stated in a Memorandum of […]
•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 [&...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved the request of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to use the 2023 dividends due to the federation to pay for petrol subsidy. The president also approved the suspension of the payment of 2024 interim dividends to the federation in order to augment the oil firm’s cash flow, [&hellip...
•Minister of Finance, Olawale Edun The federal government has not yet commenced direct payment of monthly allocations to Nigeria’s 774 local government areas. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, explained that the Supreme Court’s proceedings had not yet been communicated to the Attorney General of the Fe...
The Organised Private Sector of Nigeria (OPSN) has expressed concern over its ability to pay the N70,000 newly approved minimum wage, saying private organisations are over-burdened by high cost of production. The Director-General, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Mr. Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, who spoke on behalf of the body, h...
•Governor Otti Governor Alex Otti-led Abia State Government has denied that its recently approved N15,000 wage award for civil servants in the state for a period of three months was done as a result of the threat by the Organised Labour to embark on indefinite strike action from this week. It will be recalled that […]
•Immigration officers The director general of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Dasuki Arabi, announced today, Friday, July 12, that after seventeen years of persistence, the government has resolved the outstanding severance benefits for 1,330 Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) officers who were disengaged during the 2006/2007 refor...
•Teesside University Nigerian students protested on campus on Tuesday morning The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, today, announced that Teesside University in the United Kingdom has implemented a more compassionate payment method. Dabiri-Erewa stated this at a press conference ahead of the National Diaspor...
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