{"id":19336,"date":"2019-12-25T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2019-12-25T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T15:13:44","slug":"jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa State begins payment of new minimum wage to workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa State Government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of the State Civil Service (HoS), Alhaji Hussaini Kila, made this known in a statement in Dutse on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kila said already some of the workers had received bank alerts of their December salary reflecting the new minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>He called on workers to reciprocate the gesture through dedication to their duties.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gov. Muhammad Badaru of the state had on Dec. 4, promised to implement the N30,000 minimum wage approved by the Federal Government to its workers in December.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru gave the assurance after signing the minimum wage payment agreement.<\/p>\n<p>After the signing, the governor directed the head of service and Secretary to the State Government (SSG) to ensure the commencement of payment by December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am, therefore, directing the HOS and SSG to ensure payment of the minimum wage in December salary,\u201d Badaru said.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed by the state government, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Joint Public Service Negotiation Council (JNC).<\/p>\n<p>The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Namadi, signed on behalf of the state governor, while Mr Sunusi Alhassan and Hassan Auwalu, the NLC and NJC Chairmen, respectively, signed for the unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa State Government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers. The Head of the State Civil Service (HoS), Alhaji Hussaini Kila, made this known in a statement in Dutse on Tuesday. Kila said already some of the workers had received bank alerts of their December salary reflecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":19337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1267,709,1266],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-badaru","tag-jigwa","tag-ssg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jigawa State begins payment of new minimum wage to workers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Jigawa State Government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers.and so many other\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jigawa State begins payment of new minimum wage to workers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Jigawa State Government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers.and so many other\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-25T15:13:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/JIGAWA-MAP.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Jigawa State begins payment of new minimum wage to workers\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-25T15:13:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/JIGAWA-MAP.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Badaru\",\"Jigwa\",\"SSG\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-state-begins-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-to-workers\",\"name\":\"Jigawa State begins payment of new minimum wage to workers - 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