Wow!! Gov.Oshiomhole Increases Edo Minimum Wage to N25, 000

Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has promulgated the increment of the National Minimum Wage in the state from N18,000 to N25, 000 with immediate effect, for employees in the State Public Accommodation.
The move is expected to put pressure on other states of the federation which have been struggling to pay salaries of workers mostly due to poor management of their resources. Oshiomhole made the promulgation on Sunday, at the grand finale of activities to mark the 2016 Workers Day, integrating that plans had been concluded to pay the outstanding salary arrears of staff of Local Regime Councils in the state.

He declared that staff of Egor Local Regime Council, who were being owned 13 months arrears of salary, will be paid within the next a fortnight saying that the state had been meeting with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and that within the next a fortnight, the mazuma would be relinquished and staff of the council would be paid in plenary. He additionally revealed the reason abaft the non -appointment of Caretaker Committees for the 18 local regime councils in the state, after the cessation of the tenure of the immediate-past local regime chairmen. “Rather than appoint caretaker committees for the councils and pay them because they are politicians, we directed the Heads of Personnel Management in the councils to hold forth, so that those monies would be acclimated to run the councils and pay salaries,” he verbalized.

Oshiomhole declared that should the price of oil goes to zero, workers in the state would get their salary afore the terminus of every month assuring that he would not utilize his office to cause hardship on any of his workers.