Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved N80,000 as the new minimum wage for the state civil servants
The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, confirmed this in a statement in Ibadan on Wednesday.
He the Technical Committee set up by the State Government recommended and got approval from Governor Seyi Makinde for the implementation of the new salary scale.
Oyelade said : “This new scale will be implemented as soon as the consequential adjustments process is completed by the committee which comprises of Government and Labour top officials.
The Commissioner recalled that only last month, a Federal Government Agency, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in its latest employment statistics published for 2024, rated Oyo state as the most worker friendly State in the whole of Southern Nigeria.
