{"id":77884,"date":"2025-11-02T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77884"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:51:14","slug":"reps-propose-%e2%82%a63500-daily-wage-for-rural-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/reps-propose-%e2%82%a63500-daily-wage-for-rural-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Propose \u20a63,500 Daily Wage for Rural Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives is considering a bill to establish a National Integrated Rural Development Agency and guarantee \u20a63,500 daily pay for unskilled rural workers.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Marcus Onobun (Esan Central\/Esan West\/Igueben, Edo), the bill seeks to reduce poverty and promote sustainable rural development by providing 100 days of paid employment per year for adult participants in local projects, with one-third of the jobs reserved for women.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed agency will coordinate nationwide rural programmes, monitor projects, and promote technology adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Its funds will be tax-exempt, while contributions to the agency will be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n<p>Onobun said the initiative aims to create a legal framework for tackling rural poverty and improving livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is awaiting second reading in the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The House of Representatives is considering a bill to establish a National Integrated Rural Development Agency and guarantee \u20a63,500 daily pay for unskilled rural workers. Sponsored by Marcus Onobun (Esan Central\/Esan West\/Igueben, Edo), the bill seeks to reduce poverty and promote sustainable rural development by providing 100 days of paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77884","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\/77884","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77886,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77884\/revisions\/77886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}