Gov. Makinde approves N80,000 minimum wage for Oyo workers
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved N80,000 minimum wage for those in the state workforce, an official said on Wednesday in Ibadan, the state capital.
The state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, disclosed in a statement that the technical committee set up by the state government recommended the N80,000.
“The recommendation of the committee got approval from the governor 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 government and top labour officials,” he stated.
The commissioner said an agency of the federal government — the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) —recently rated Oyo State well in its 2024 employment statistics.
“The state was rated as the most worker-friendly state in the whole of South-West.
“This NBS rating was as a result of the significant decline in Oyo State unemployment rate following a series of high-pitched employment of workers into various sectors of the state,” he said.
Mr Oyelade also said workers had always received their salaries on the 25th of every month since Mr Makinde came into office in 2019.
He added that the Makinde administration had paid the backlog of gratuities from 2008 to 2015 for pensioners with an increase in gratuity payment.
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