{"id":4949,"date":"2024-07-24T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:28:50","slug":"video-senate-approves-n70000-as-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-senate-approves-n70000-as-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Senate Approves N70,000 As Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(VIDEO) Senate Approves N70,000 As Minimum Wage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Senate Approves N70,000 As Minimum Wage\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EamesXjHS6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has approved N70,000 as minimum wage for workers in Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe national minimum wage bill will become effective after President Bola Tinubu, assents to it.<br \/>\nThe bill, which scaled first, second and third readings, just minutes after it was transmitted by President Bola Tinubu, was instantly passed by the upper chamber.<br \/>\nThe legislation seeks to raise the country\u2019s minimum wage from N30,000 to N70,000.<br \/>\nWhile leading a debate on the bill, Opeyemi Bamidele, Senate leader, said N70,000 was agreed upon by all the parties after negotiations.<br \/>\nFor his part, Tahir Monguno, chief whip, said there is a need to review the minimum wage in line with economic realities.<br \/>\nIn a unanimous vote after a clause consideration in the Committee of the Whole, the National Minimum Wage Bill scaled third reading and was passed.<br \/>\nThe period for reviewing the minimum wage has been reduced from five years to three years.<\/p>\n<p>Opeyemi Bamidele- Senate Leader<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Swifteradio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(VIDEO) Senate Approves N70,000 As Minimum Wage. &nbsp; The Nigerian Senate has approved N70,000 as minimum&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":4951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}