Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has announced that workers have been receiving an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January. He further disclosed plans for the state government to implement a new minimum wage scheme soon.<\/p>\n
Sanwo-Olu clarified that employees currently earning a minimum wage of N35,000 or more are now receiving a salary of N70,000 or above as of the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe civil servant and all public officers in Lagos know that since January, we have continued to pay the wage allowance of a minimum of N35,000 over and above what they were earning before.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat this means is that people that are earning a minimum of N35,000 or more before are now earning over N70,00. That is what they have been enjoying since January.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it is important for people to know that we make these things very clear that this government has doubled up to ensure that at this difficult time, it has not left the citizens on their own,\u201d Sanwo-Olu said at a state function on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The governor while giving an update on the intervention the state embarked on to ameliorate the current economic hardship, said his administration will distribute food items to 500,000 households in the state through unions and local governments.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the \u2018Ounje Eko\u2019 initiative, where food items are sold at discounted prices, the governor said, \u201cWe created 59 makeshift markets outside of the regular markets out of our 57 local government and local council development areas and made it Sunday-Sunday market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has announced that workers have been receiving an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January. He further disclosed plans for the state government to implement a new minimum wage scheme soon. Sanwo-Olu clarified that employees currently earning a minimum wage of N35,000 or more are now receiving a salary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":298086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55053,338,78581,936],"class_list":["post-320427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-governor-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-lagos-state","tag-wage-allowance","tag-workers"],"yoast_head":"\n