A minimum wage of N80,000 has been approved for Oyo State civil servants by Governor Seyi Makinde.
The state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, revealed in Ibadan on Wednesday that the Technical Committee set up by the state government had recommended and obtained approval from Makinde for the implementation of the new salary scale.
“This new scale will be implemented as soon as the consequential adjustments process is completed by the committee, which comprises both government and Labour top officials,” Oyelade said.
The commissioner recalled that, only last month, the National Bureau of Statistics, in its latest employment statistics published for 2024, rated Oyo State as the most worker-friendly in the whole of Southern Nigeria due to a significant decline in the state’s unemployment rate, following the mass employment of workers into various sectors of the state.
“The Oyo State Government has been paying workers’ salaries on the 25th of every month since Governor Makinde took office in 2019,” the commissioner noted.
“The governor began paying the previous N30,000 minimum wage from the start of his tenure over four years ago, including consistent payments of pensions, gratuities, and a 13th-month salary for both workers and pensioners alike.
“Since November 2023, Governor Makinde has been paying N25,000 to workers and N15,000 to pensioners as a welfare wage award. The Makinde administration introduced the wage award to cushion the effects of the Federal Government’s fuel subsidy removal and has remained consistent with these payments for over a year, even to this day.”
Oyelade reiterated that the governor has paid the backlog of gratuities from 2008 to 2015 for pensioners, with an increase in gratuity payments for those under both the Local Government Staff Pensions Board and those paid by the Ministry of Establishment and Training.
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