{"id":320882,"date":"2024-04-29T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=320882"},"modified":"2024-04-29T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:19:25","slug":"breaking-obaseki-announces-n70-000-new-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/04\/29\/breaking-obaseki-announces-n70-000-new-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Obaseki Announces N70, 000 New Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The minimum wage increase is to take effect from May 1, 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The governor revealed this while commissioning the new Labour House in Edo state on Monday<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo has increased minimum wage for workers in the state to N70,000.<\/p>\n<p>The governor named it after Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/04\/10\/ill-help-obasekis-candidate-win-guber-poll-edo-new-dep-gov\/\"><strong>Obaseki<\/strong><\/a> made this declaration while commissioning the labour house which is second to none, and regarded as the most magnificent Labour House in Nigeria, built by the ex-governor&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396516698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396516698.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396516698-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396516698-1024x683.jpg 1024w, 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https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396528094-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396530306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396530306.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396530306-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396530306-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/1714396530306-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320893\" 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The governor revealed this while commissioning the new Labour House in Edo state on Monday Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo has increased minimum wage for workers in the state to N70,000. The governor named it after Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":320885,"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":[5,2],"tags":[75,2071,76,78697],"class_list":["post-320882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-national","tag-edo","tag-minimum-wage","tag-obaseki","tag-obaseki-increases-minimum-wage-to-n70k-in-edo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Obaseki Announces N70, 000 New Minimum Wage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/04\/29\/breaking-obaseki-announces-n70-000-new-minimum-wage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Obaseki Announces N70, 000 New Minimum Wage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The minimum wage increase is to take effect from May 1, 2024. 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