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. …

Two days before the end of 2024, Governor Seyi Makinde kept to his promise to pay the famous 13th month salary. The alert crept into the phones of joyous Oyo State workers on the evening of Monday, 30 December. In a statement on Tuesday by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, this is in spite of the …

The Oyo State Government has approved a minimum wage of ₦80,000 for the state workforce. In a statement, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, said the Technical Committee set up by the State Government recommended and got approval from Governor Seyi Makinde for the implementation of the new salary scale. He added that the new scale will …

Civil servants in Oyo State have vowed to continue with their protest until Governor Seyi Makinde addresses them. Addressing journalists on Wednesday, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Kayode Martins said that, although the governor had set up a committee on subsidy removal palliatives eight weeks ago, the committee had not met on the assignment. Martins, …