The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have expressed their readiness to pay the N30,000 minimum wage recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, disclosed while speaking with newsmen at the end of the forum’s meeting which ended in the early hours of…
Socialist Party on Nigeria, SPN, Oyo State Chapter decries the decision by newly inaugurated Seyi Makinde PDP- led government to substitute the implementation of N30, 000 minimum wage recently signed into law by both the presidency and national assemblies with what was called a “staggered salary increment” for mass of workers in the state. They…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has disclosed that Oyo State workers have gotten May salary so they could prepare for the coming sallah celebration. The governor who stated this in a statement signed by his Chief of Staff, Chief Bisi Ilaka on Friday, maintained that the action was in consonance with his promise to…
The new governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde on Thursday assured civil servants in the state that he will pay more than Federal Government’s approved N30,000. Makinde stated this at an inter-religious prayer organized to ushered in the new administration in the state at the state Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. The new governor added that…
Oyo State governor-elect, Engr Seyi Makinde, has described the suspension of the strike by the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, to honour him as humbling. In a statement by his spokesman on Monday, Prince Dotun Oyelade, he said that this gesture is a recognition of his sincerity in dealing with all issues…
An Imo State High Court presided over by Justice K. A. Ojiako, has described the forceful entry, demolition of staff quarters of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri and rendering of the institution’s pensioners homeless, as “illegal, unconscionable and portrayed the defendants as people that have no respect for the rule of law”. Okorocha…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, over the weekend said the new minimum wage will take effect from April 18, 2019, when it was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. It would recalled that the Federal Government on May 14, 2019 inaugurated a committee to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries…
The Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Professor Idowu Olayinka has said that the institution with a student population of 32,228, full-time equivalents and the current number of staff at about 2,736, is against the National University Commission (NUC) standard which means the university is having workers’ shortfall of 1,834. Professor Olayinka made this known on…
Oyo State workers on Thursday threatened to commence strike and paralyse government activities starting from tomorow, Friday, May 24, if the state government doesn’t meet their demands. Part of the demands contained in a two-page statement jointly signed by the NLC secretary, Mohamed Ibrahim and the secretary of Joint Negotiating Council, Lukman Balogun, after a…
The Federal Government has increased the monthly allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to 30,000. Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during a press conference where she added that the total sum of N649.434 billion was verified by the ministry as the outstanding balance to…
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