The Oyo State Government, on Friday, paid a total sum of ₦12 billion to the state government workers. In a statement on Saturday, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, said the money paid is a result of a promise kept by Governor Seyi Makinde on the ₦80,000 minimum wage for the state workers from 1 January 2025. …

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has announced that the state will commence payment of the new minimum wage starting this month. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Abdulrahman Bundi, in a Facebook post on Thursday, said, Zulum convened a meeting with the state minimum wage implementation committee, where he directed that civil servants be paid the …

The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Yahaya, has stated that the state has a standing committee on the new national minimum wage. Recall that last July, the governor questioned the viability of his state paying the newly approved N70,000. Yahaya made this disclosure on Saturday in a press statement signed by the Director-General of Press Affairs, Gombe Government House, Ismaila …

President Bola Tinubu has approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage. He promised to review the national minimum wage law every three years. This is coming after the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) met with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. In a statement on X, the Special Adviser …

The Southern Governors’ Forum, the umbrella body for 17 governors from the three geo-political zones of South-West, South-East and South-South has planned generating 90,000 MW of electricity to cater for the power needs of 90 million residents of the region The forum said it is embarking on this project using the rule of thumb of 1,000 MW per 1 million …

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero has said that, if the ongoing inflation continues unabated, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1 million for Nigerian workers. Ajaero said the demand from organised labour would be influenced by the cost of living which has been increasing since President Bola Tinubu …