Makinde approves N80,000 as minimum wage for Oyo workers
The Oyo State Government under the leadership of Governor Seyi Makinde has approved N80,000 as minimum wage for workers in…
Category: Minimum wage
Minimum Wage: CAN hails Bago, tasks civil servants to take advantage of farming programs
Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Niger State Chapter, Most Rev Bulus Dauwa Yohanna has commended Governor Mohammed…
Niger: Gov Bago announces new minimum wage of N80,000
The Niger State Government has approved the sum of N80,000 as the new minimum wage for civil servants at the…
Gov Mbah approves N80,000 minimum wage for Enugu workers
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has approved the sum of 80,000 Naira as the minimum wage for the state’s…
Kayode Akinmade: Minimum wage: Again, Dapo Abiodun blazes the trail
The Yoruba, one of black Africa’s most prominent ethnic groups, know the value of words and actions produced at the…
Kwara: Gov Abdulrazaq directs payment of new minimum wage from October 2024
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has directed the payment of the new minimum wage starting from October 2024. According…
BREAKING: Rivers State govt approves 85,000 new minimum wage
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved a new minimum wage of N85,000 for civil servants under the employ of…
N85,000 minimum wage unexpected — Lagos union reacts
The Lagos State Public Service Joint Negotiating Council has said the announcement of N85,000 minimum wage approval by Governor Babajide…
Ogun approves N77,000 as minimum wage
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has approved the sum of N77,000 as the minimum wage for the lowest worker in…
Tell Nigerians how many people N70,000 minimum wage covers – NLC to lawmakers
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has called on the National Assembly to expedite action on modalities for the coverage of…
Petrol price hike: Why we accepted N70,000 minimum wage – Ajaero
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has revealed the reasons the organized labour accepted the N70,000 minimum…
Jigawa Governor, Namadi approves N70,000 minimum wage
Jigawa State Governor, Malam Umar Namadi has approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage. Special adviser to the Governor on…
Minimum wage: Work in progress for Kwara workers – NLC
Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Kwara State, Comrade Murtala Olayinka, has said efforts are ongoing with other stakeholders to…
Minimum Wage: Abiodun assures Ogun workers of implementation
The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun has promised that the state would be first in the implementation of the…
Delta Govt reveals why it can’t implement new minimum wage now
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has said the state government cannot implement the new minimum wage now because it is…
Adamawa govt to pay N70,000 minimum wage August
The Adamawa State Government is set to implement the N70,000 minimum monthly wage recently legislated and signed into law at…
Minimum Wage: NYSC clears air on payment of N70,000 to corps members
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has reacted to a report making the rounds on social media that corps members’…
Jigawa govt forms 10-man minimum wage implementation committee
The Jigawa State Government on Thursday established a ten-member committee for the implementation of the National minimum wage. State Commissioner…
Minimum wage: LGs have no reason to complain – Council chairman
The Chairman of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, Mr Fatai Ayoola, has said that local governments have no…
‘N30,000 minimum wage was of greater value than current N70,000 minimum wage’ – Kenneth Okonkwo
Veteran Nollywood actor and politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has argued that the former N30,000 minimum wage was of greater value than…
NLC threatens showdown with Gombe govt over N70,000 minimum wage
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has issued a stern warning following Governor Muhammad Yahaya’s declaration that Gombe State cannot afford…
Minimum wage: Rep identifies businesses that won’t pay workers N70,000
A member of the House Representatives, Akin Alabi, has said not all businesses would be mandated to pay the N70,000…
Minimum wage: Housemaids, gatemen, drivers can’t earn below N70,000 – Akpabio
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has said Nigerian employers can’t pay their staff below N70,000. Akpabio said employers…
N70,000 minimum wage: We’ll continue to fight for your rights – NLC assures workers
Following their agreement with the Nigeria Government on minimum wage, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Nigeria Labour Congress,…
N70,000 minimum wage good, review politicians’ lifestyle – Moghalu to Tinubu
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu, has described the N70,000 minimum wage approved by…
Rivers govt denies approving N80,000 minimum wage
Rivers State Government has debunked news that the state government approved N80,000 as the minimum wage. In a statement by…
We need support to pay N70,000 minimum wage – Organised private sector
The Organised Private Sector, OPS, has reacted to the new N70,000 minimum wage adopted by the Federal Government. DAILY POST…
Naira gains against dollar after minimum wage increase
The naira appreciated significantly at both official and foreign exchange black markets on Thursday amid President Bola Tinubu’s N70,000 new…
Minimum Wage consultations between Organised Labour, Tinubu inconclusive
Minimum Wage consultations between the Organised Labour and President Bola Tinubu have again adjourned without a conclusive agreement. The meeting…
Govs have no constitutional right to hijack minimum wage negotiations – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has described state governors’ interference in the national minimum wage negotiation as unconstitutional. The head…
Minimum wage: We won’t promise workers unaffordable pay –Nigerian Govt
The Federal Government has said that it cannot promise an “impossible” minimum wage that it would not be able to…
BREAKING: Minimum wage: Labour to hold emergency meeting over FEC’s decision
The organised labour, made up of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have called for an…
BREAKING: Tinubu to consult further on appropriate national minimum wage
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said he needs more time to consult widely on the appropriate amount to be paid…
Minimum Wage: Consider NLC’s request – Kenneth Okonkwo tells Tinubu
A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Okonkwo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to proffer a lasting solution to…
Minimum Wage: Cut cost of governance to pay better wages – Bishop tells Tinubu
Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship, Most Reverend Paulinus Ezeokafor, has urged President Bola Tinubu to cut the cost…
Minimum wage bill must uphold workers’ right to a living wage – SERAP tells Tinubu
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to “ensure that his government’s proposed bill on…
Minimum wage: Anambra workers in dilemma over Assembly’s continued disdain
As the minimum wage argument continues at the national level, there is doubt that even if the Nigeria Labour Congress,…
Minimum Wage: Ex-Imo Commissioner accuses Labour of insensitivity
Ex-Commissioner in Imo State, Prof. Vitalis Orikeze Ajumbe has accused the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress,…
Minimum Wage Bill: NASS not proposing seizure of states, LGs funds – Senate spokesman
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu has said the 10th Senate was not…
Minimum wage: Labour selfish in their negotiation — PDP chieftain, Onuesoke
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Delta State gubernatorial aspirant, Sunny Onuesoke, has criticised what he…
Minimum Wage: Beware of mass sack – Nigerian Govt tells Labour
The Federal Government has warned the organized labour against negotiating a new minimum wage that would lead to mass retrenchment…
Minimum wage: I’ll approve what Nigeria can afford – Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has said that he would approve a new minimum wage that the government can afford. The President…
Minimum wage: Key into FG’s proposal – Tinubu’s ex-campaign spokesman, Onoh urges S’East govs
Campaign spokesman of President Bola Tinubu in the South-East during the 2023 presidential election, Dr. Josef Onoh has urged governors…
Minimum wage: Why we cannot embark on strike – Labour
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said they won’t embark on any strike action starting Tuesday to demand a new…
Minimum wage: We expect outcomes that reflect fiscal federalism — S’West governors
The Southwest governors said on Monday that the negotiations between the Nigerian government and organised labour should reflect fiscal federalism.…
Minimum Wage: Some govs frustrating our efforts – Labour
The Organized Labour has accused some state governors of frustrating the success of the negotiation with the Federal Government on…
Minimum Wage: Nigerian Govt can pay above N100,000 – SDP chairman, Gabam
The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Shehu Gabam, has said the Federal Government can pay above N100,000…
Minimum wage: States extremely rich, can pay N60,000 – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Saturday declared that state governors are rich enough to pay the new national minimum…
Nigerians need economic deflation, not increase in minimum wage, PDP Chieftain, Onuesoke
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State, Sunny Onuesoke has said the solution to Nigeria’s economic…
BREAKING: Minimum Wage: N60,000 too high – Governors
Governors of the 36 states of the Federation have rejected the N60,000 minimum wage proposed by the Federal Government. The…