The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos State chapter, Agnes Funmi, has said the labour union could reject the N85,000 minimum wage offered by the state government if another state declared a higher amount. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said his government was planning to pay Lagos civil servants N85,000 as minimum wage. Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Wednesday evening during …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the state would pay N85,000 monthly minimum wage to its workers, which is N15,000 higher than the N70,000 approved by the Federal Government in July. President Bola Tinubu signed the new N70,000 minimum wage bill into law in July, ending months of deliberations between government representatives, labour unions and the private …

Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has approved the sum of N77,000 as the minimum wage for the lowest worker in the State, saying the payment of the package takes immediate effect. The decision was revealed after a meeting between Governor Abiodun, represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, and the leadership of the Organised …

Ondo State Governor, Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa has announced the implementation of a N73,000 minimum wage for workers in the state. During the flag-off of the Ondo Central senatorial district leg of the gubernatorial campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo City, the governor said that, although the Federal Government approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage, the state would …

Kogi State Governor, Alhai Ahmed Ododo on Monday threw workers of the state into a frenzy when he approved N72,500 as minimum wage for workers with immediate effect The N72,500 wage is N2,500 higher than what the Federal Government and other stakeholders approved in July for workers in both private and public sectors. Ododo also gave tax relief to all …

Following the consequential adjustment in salary structures by the committee set up by the government to review the new minimum wage, retirees will now receive an increment of N32,000 in their monthly pensions. This was revealed in a memo by the National Salaries, Wages, and Income Commission, sighted on Monday by The PUNCH. According to the memo, dated 27 September …

Two months after it agreed with labour on N70,000 minimum wage, the Federal Government on Thursday began payment of the new salary and its consequential adjustments to public servants across all levels of the federal civil service. With over 1.2 million civil servants on the payroll of the Federal Government, the wage bill will now be N4.019 trillion annually. The …

The Federal Government through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) has stated that the payment of the new minimum wage will commence from July 2024. The NSIWC Chairman, Ekpo Nta, said this during a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. The commission stated that this was because the date in question was when the President approved the bill …

The Abia State Government has stated that it will commence payment of the new minimum wage from October. The state Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, disclosed this on Monday while briefing the press on the outcome of the week’s State Executive Council meeting chaired by the state governor, Alex Otti. He stated the payment, “will cut across all categories of …

The Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for civil servants met on Friday as regards the new minimum wage template and agreed that the effective date for implementation of new minimum wage be set a 29 July 2024. This is according to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) issued at the end of the meeting which was sighted by our correspondent …