dayokanu:

Go ACN

Thanks Aregbesola

Now we are waiting for beaf to come and comment

baksonlee:

Osun to pay ₦19,000 as minimum wage
BY BAMIGBOLA GBOLAGUNTE
August 30, 2011 12:01AM



Three weeks after its workers embarked on a strike to call for the implementation of the ₦18,000 minimum wage, the Osun State government Monday approved ₦19,001 as minimum wage for its civil servants.

According to Semiu Okanlawon, spokesperson to the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, the state government has, by this development “implemented fully, the Minimum Wage Law for workers on Levels 01 to 07.”

He said that in addition to the ₦19,001 for the least paid workers under the employment of the state government, the government also approved substantial raise in the salaries of other grade levels.

“Thus, the government has approved additional ₦7,429,50 for workers from Levels 8 to 10; ₦6,611 for workers on Levels 12 to 14 while ₦5,096.40 has been added to salaries of workers on Levels 15 to 17,” he said.

“The ₦19,001 minimum wage exceeds the ₦18,000 minimum wage prescribed by the Minimum Wage Law recently enacted by the Federal Government. The government team reassured the workers’ representatives that the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola is poised to ensure that workers in the state emerge the best paid workers throughout the country.”

Mr Okanlawon stated that as soon as the Internally Generated Revenue of the State improves, the government promises to review the salaries of workers in the state upward.

Officials of the state government, who reached the agreement in a meeting with the workers’ representatives in Osogbo, also announced plans to set up a Salaries and Wages Commission which will fix salaries and wages of workers according to the increase in the financial fortunes of the state.

okada_man:

I thought he said they can't afford it. What changed?

I expect him to fire redundant and unproductive workers now.

Beaf:

Lol! E da ke rumours!
Its fake news, manufactured on NL.
Aregbe is still busy shopping, wining and perfecting uselessness in Saudi, while workers suffer.

baksonlee:

Osun to pay ₦19,000 as minimum wage

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5740308-146/story.csp

Aregbesola sudden reversal is interesting . . . .politics na sweet game . .e be like say person don put better spit for him ear  . . . make him continue to dey form one man rambo squad    . . . .him for learn never to play hardcore with civil servants, cos na there the grassroots dey hold onto for survival purposes . . . .

meanwhile the ACN lovers hounding beaf on Delta state simply forgot that the same Uduaghan was endorsed by the ACN for the rerun election . . .you guyz forget so easily . . .or let's say the news wasn't made popular on this land . . . .a reason why you all went on a boomerang shooting spree  . . .

Warri — ACTION Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has endorsed Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for the January 6, 2011 Delta State governorship re-run election.

ACN in the state also disclosed plans to organize a mother of all rallies for Dr. Uduaghan before the re-run election.

Addressing a press conference at the weekend in Warri, the state chairman of the party, Dr. Mike Emuh said that "authentic and legally constituted Delta State ACN leadership endorses Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for January 6, 2011 re-run election in Delta State.

Leffe2010:

nigeria is a dry country 1800 people are still happy i pity this contry i swear my pot of soup for yesterday was 124 pounds as caculated which mean 35000 a pair of my jeans worth more than salare of the so called minimum wage fake contry fake people

rman:

Don't let us get carried away with this news.
Why allow the workers to go on strike for a whole month in the first place if you can pay more than the 18,500?

What the state government have done may be similar to what Kwara used to deceive its workers. The state will pay the lowest level in the civil service (level1 step1) the 18,500 or 19,001 in this case, and as you move up, that value is no longer used to calculate your salary. So, a level 15 or level 16 personel may actually still be earning something very close to his/her old minimum wage. So level 1 workers salary may become double with this while older and senior staffs may only see a very very small marginal increase in their pay(in kwara's case, it is as low as 5000 naira from level8 above). And Kwara is claiming to be paying the minimum wage. I know the media houses have been trying to make civil servants look bad with their news and programmes in the state(I have seen quite a few). Aregbesola have also been on the lesser hajj(Humrah) for sometime now allowing the strike to linger for too long. I am sure what Osun has done may actually be similar to what we have in Kwara.

By the way, Aregbesola has not struck me as the performing governor that we all read about in the papers. He hasn't really done much since he has been in power. O'YES that we all hear about (20,000 jobs in first 100 days) is a scheme where graduates are employed as cleaners and sweepers of major streets across all the LGA's , that to me is not job creation. If you have ever visited the state , you will see O'YES all over moving in groups in uniforms like corpers. Mind you, the same state has declared all saturdays of the month as sanitation days for three months, rendering the state paralysised on most saturdays between 7am till 9am. That to me is not a fantastic idea for a state that just employed 20,000 new cleaners (O'YES) across all the LGA's.

These are my own little observation since doing bussiness in the state and I don't have any political affiliation.

Leffe2010:

nigeria is a dry country 1800 people are still happy i pity this contry i swear my pot of soup for yesterday was 124 pounds as caculated which mean 35000 a pair of my jeans worth more than salare of the so called minimum wage fake contry fake people