Ondo Workers Write Aiyedatiwa, Demand N256,950 New Minimum Wage

Labour unions nether the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ondo State Council, and its affiliate Unions person written to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to formally request an contiguous upward reappraisal of the minimum wage for Ondo State workers to a sum of N256,950.

The Ondo State authorities presently pays N73,000 arsenic minimum wage, which the labour unions said tin nary longer conscionable the workers’ needs amidst the country’s economical hardship.
In a missive dated 19th September, 2025, signed and addressed to Governor Aiyedatiwa, the NLC besides demanded an upward reappraisal of pensions for retirees successful the state.

The State Chairman, Comrade Ademola Olapade, and the State Secretary, Comrade Akin Sunday, signed the letter.

In the missive sighted by LEADERSHIP successful Akure, however, the Ondo NLC commended Governor Aiyedatiwa for ensuring punctual salaries and pensions payments and the timely promotion of deserving workers by the State government.

The workers stated that the request was based connected aggregate compelling factors rooted successful economical reality, rising outgo of surviving and a motivation work to support the dignity and payment of workers and retirees.
The NLC missive reads, “We constitute connected behalf of the workers and pensioners of Ondo State to marque a ceremonial and urgent request for a broad upward reappraisal of the caller minimum wage successful the State.

“Your Excellency, it is nary longer quality that the Nigerian system has been severely battered by inflation, currency devaluation, the removal of substance subsidies, and skyrocketing costs of food, housing, transportation, and healthcare. These factors person eroded the worth of wages and near the mean idiosyncratic and pensioner successful perpetual economical suffocation.

“Despite this, Ondo State, arsenic an oil-producing state, has continued to acquisition a tremendous summation successful its internally generated gross (IGR) and peculiarly national allocations, owed to the improved lipid earnings, favourable marketplace conditions and subsidy funds.

“This world was portion of the knowing and committedness made by the Ondo State Government during the past minimum wage negotiation, that whenever determination is an upward displacement successful the State’s gross illustration (inflow), workers’ payment volition beryllium reviewed accordingly.

“Mr Governor Sir, recently, the Imo authorities authorities approved and commenced the outgo of a caller minimum wage of #104,000 to Imo State workers and pensioners alike. This bold and commendable measurement by a non-oil-producing authorities sends a wide awesome crossed the federation that governments indispensable prioritise the well-being of their workforce if they are to guarantee sustainable governance and societal stability.’’