{"id":65191,"date":"2025-05-02T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65191"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:44:02","slug":"wike-orders-swift-payment-of-council-workers-wage-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/02\/wike-orders-swift-payment-of-council-workers-wage-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Orders Swift Payment of Council Workers\u2019 Wage Arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has directed Area Council chairmen to immediately settle all outstanding minimum wage arrears owed to their workers.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by the Head of the FCT Civil Service, Grace Adayilo, at the 2025 Workers\u2019 Day celebration in Abuja, Wike expressed dismay over the continued strike by Area Council staff despite the disbursement of \u20a64.1 billion to the six councils to cover the new wage obligations.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the administration\u2019s unwavering commitment to staff welfare and called for urgent action from council leaders to restore industrial harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Wike also outlined ongoing efforts to upgrade working conditions across the territory, including school renovations and the supply of essential teaching materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA well-treated workforce is essential to delivering quality public services,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has directed Area Council chairmen to immediately settle all outstanding minimum wage arrears owed to their workers. Represented by the Head of the FCT Civil Service, Grace Adayilo, at the 2025 Workers\u2019 Day celebration in Abuja, Wike expressed dismay over the continued strike by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65193,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191\/revisions\/65193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}