Biodun Oyebanji, the governor of Ekiti, has said only an increased allocation can enable state governments to pay the new minimum wage. ..Read Full Article
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, July 3, during the 7th quadrennial delegates’ conference of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Oyebanji stated that each state was interested in determining what it could afford so that it would not end up laying off staff.
Several months after negotiations, an agreement on what to pay as a new minimum wage in Nigeria has not been reached.
The Ekiti governor said:
“No governor wants to retrench, if there is a minimum wage today without a concurrent increment in what we are earning, no state can pay.
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