{"id":53180,"date":"2024-10-10T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/jigawa-governor-namadi-approves-n70000-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:00:05","slug":"jigawa-governor-namadi-approves-n70000-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/jigawa-governor-namadi-approves-n70000-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa Governor, Namadi approves N70,000 minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jigawa State Governor, Malam Umar Namadi has approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Special adviser to the Governor on salary and pension, and committee member for the minimum wage implementation. Hon. Bashir Ado disclosed this on Saturday while responding to a question from newsmen on the government\u2019s plan for the implementation of the minimum wage shortly after casting his vote at Kanya Babba.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cGovernor Umar Namadi has already approved the N70,000 as minimum wage; what remains is for the committee to complete its assigned responsibility for the implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the committee had completed 90 percent of its work and would soon present the report to Governor Umar Namadi for onward approval of the new salary structure.<\/p>\n<p>He said the state has about nine salary structures and those with special salary scales that are above the minimum wage will enjoy consequential adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Ado explained that even the NLC was pleased with the increment when they saw the template and the increased amount each civil servant will receive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure civil servants will laugh and appreciate Governor Umar Namadi\u2019s effort when they see the salary increase,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that the Jigawa State Executive Council, presided over by Governor Umar Namadi, had approved a 10-member committee to implement the new minimum wage in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by the State Head of Service, Muhammad Dagaceri, with the Permanent Private Secretary to the Governor serving as Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Governor Namadi has also approved over N5b for the settlement of retirees\u2019 benefits delayed for over 20 months.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Governor Umar Namadi for his efforts to improve the welfare of civil servants and pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>Jigawa Governor, Namadi approves N70,000 minimum wage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jigawa State Governor, Malam Umar Namadi has approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage. Special adviser to the Governor on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,8005,3960,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jigawa","category-minimum-wage","category-namadi","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}