Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has announced that he will pay the new minimum wage, starting from Jan. 26.
Obiano made the declaration while inspecting the 5.3Km Eziowelle-Umunnachi-Afor Igwe roads in Idemili South and Dunukofia local government areas.
According to him, the new minimum wage implementation will improve socio-economic status of the state and boost the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
He stressed that the economic importance of the implementation of the new minimum wage, pointing out that improved welfare of workers was top priority of his administration.
Gov. Obiano, while inspecting the Eziowelle-Umunnachi-Afor Igwe roads, currently under …
The governor gave the assurance in a maiden state wide broadcast in Owerri on Wednesday.
Uzodinma, who thanked workers for their patience and support, however, said that the time had come to give them a voice among their contemporaries in other states.
He said that payment of the new minimum wage would commence with the completion of negotiations with labour leaders in the state.
He added
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello made this disclosure on Tuesday when he received Chairmen of the 25 Local Government Areas.
He said that a committee has been set up already and considerable progress has been made in an ongoing negotiation to begin the implementation of the new minimum wage.
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“At the moment, our top priority is to address those that have been affected directly by the minimum wage and what it means is,
Governor Dickson gave the approval on Friday during a meeting with the leadership of organised labour at the Government House, Yenagoa.
The governor directed the State’s financial team to follow through the template set by the National Wages and Income Commission in implementing the new salary level.
He explained that the meeting was convened to enable the state government and the labour unions jointly work out the modalities for the payment of the
The CBN released the guidelines on its website on Monday and said one of the objectives of the framework was to identify and address sources of systemic risks within the Nigerian Payment System landscape.
The bank explained that it would help to establish sound governance arrangements to oversee the risk management framework by ensuring that risks were identified, monitored and treated.
According to CBN, the framework will help to
It would be recalled that the State Government had last year announced that it would go cashless on toll payments at the Lekki/Ikoyi toll plaza effective from January 2020 due to huge traffic gridlocks often experienced on the corridor with cash payments.
Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic 0ladeinde, who personally monitored the cashless toll payments at the toll plaza early this morning along with the Managing Director, Lekki Concession Company Limited, (LCC) Mr. Yomi Omomuwasan stated that the new cashless
The federal government had regulated electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to utilise electronic platforms for the payment of energy bills across the country.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) declared the motility is to lessen the aggregate technical, commercial and collection losses the DisCos are battling with.
The commission asked the DisCos to leverage available banking channels approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure prudence in the utilization of market funds.
While the power firms have until January 31 to migrate industrial and commercial customers to their cashless electronic platforms, they have till March 31 to move …
Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, Secretary to the state government and state NLC Chairman, Mr Hussaini Hamisu, reached the agreement according to a joint statement signed in Katsina.
NAN reports that both officials said that the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments of salaries would commence January, 2020.
According to them, the increase represents the
This is contained in a statement issued by Alhaji Mohammed Baba, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) to newsmen in on Wednesday in Bauchi.
According to the statement, the approval is with ‘immediate effect’ (commencing from January 1, 2020).
The statement reads: “The Executive Governor of Bauchi State, Sen. Bala Mohammad, has received the report of the committee of the state Joint Public Service Council on the implementation of the National
The Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions has demanded from the Federal Government the payment of 12 months arrears of 53.37 per cent salary increase estimated at ₦8.32bn.
SSAUTHRIAI made the demand in a communiqué signed by its sectoral chairman, Felix Uwadiae, and Secretary, Ademola Olajire, issued after its council meeting held at the Nigerian Institute of Trypanosomiasis Research in Kaduna in Abuja.
The agreement for the payment of 12 months arrears of 53.37 per cent salary increase estimated at N8.32bn, according to SSAUTHRIAI, was reached with its Joint Research and Allied …
The Niger State government has said that its 2020 budget is based on the payment of the ₦30,000 minimum wage.
This is just as the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thumbed down the fiscal estimates describing it as “budget of nothingness and profound sleaziness”.
The state Commissioners for Planning, Alhaji Mamman Musa and that of Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, while giving the breakdown of the budget in Minna on Wednesday, said like other aspects of the budget, the implementation will commence once the fiscal estimates are passed by the House of Assembly and assented to by …
Technical director of the NFF, Bitrus Bewerang reveals that there are plans to review the template for paying Super Eagles stars’ match bonuses.
“The present NFF started the policy of paying players a percentage of tournament bonuses during the 2018 FIFA World Cup just to motivate them, outside their bonuses and allowances,”Bewerang stated.
“We did not pay any bonus for the 2021 AFCON qualifying matches against Benin Republic and Lesotho because we are in the
