{"id":45284,"date":"2024-08-24T11:49:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=45284"},"modified":"2024-08-24T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T11:49:37","slug":"adamawa-state-implements-n70000-minimum-wage-payment-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/24\/adamawa-state-implements-n70000-minimum-wage-payment-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa State Implements N70,000 Minimum Wage Payment for Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa State Government has commenced payment of the new N70,000 minimum wage to its workers, fulfilling a recent promise by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers on the state government&#8217;s payroll received their August salaries on Friday, August 23, with the new minimum wage reflected in their payments. This development comes after Governor Fintiri assured labour leaders earlier in the week that the wage increase would be implemented this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Civil servants in the state have confirmed the receipt of the new salary package. &#8220;I can confirm to you that the salary increase has been effected and I received it,&#8221; said Amos Tumba, a government worker. Another employee, Amma Yohanna, added, &#8220;Yes, they have paid, and it\u2019s the new package.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the new minimum wage has been rolled out for state government workers, their counterparts at the local government level are expected to begin receiving the updated wage starting in September 2024, according to the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Emmanuel Fashe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa State Government has commenced payment of the new N70,000 minimum wage to its workers, fulfilling a recent promise by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri. &nbsp; Workers on the state government&#8217;s payroll received their August salaries on Friday, August 23, with the new minimum wage reflected in their payments. This development comes after Governor Fintiri assured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45286,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284\/revisions\/45286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}