Minimum Wage: Oshiomhole leads the way, offers N25, 000

Minimum Wage: Oshiomhole leads the way, offers N25, 000

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has announced the review of the state’s minimum wage from N18, 000 to N25, 000.

According to the Governor, who made the announcement on Sunday at the grand finale of activities to mark the 2016 edition of Workers Day in Benin, the new minimum wage takes immediate effect.


Oshiomhole, while promising prompt payment of outstanding arrears of salary to the staff of Local Government Councils in the state, said that plans had also been concluded to pay staff of Egor Local Government Council who were being owned 13 months arrears of salary, within the next two weeks.

He disclosed that the Edo State Government had been meeting with the Central Bank of Nigeria and that within the next two weeks, the funds would be released and staff of the council would be paid in full.

On the non -appointment of Caretaker Committees for the 18 local government councils in the state after the end of the tenure of the immediate-past local government chairmen, the Governor said: “Rather than appoint caretaker committees for the councils and pay them because they are politicians, we directed the Heads of Personnel Management in the councils to hold forth, so that those monies would be used to run the councils and pay salaries.’’

Speaking earlier at the event, the State Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Mr Orhue Marshall, called on government to enlist workers in the state in the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, adding that this would enable them to have access to quick and cheap medical facilities, like their colleagues in the Federal Public Service.