{"id":1832,"date":"2026-03-23T19:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:55:19","slug":"gov-makinde-approves-%e2%82%a610000-transport-allowance-to-ease-fuel-price-burden-on-wokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/2026\/03\/23\/gov-makinde-approves-%e2%82%a610000-transport-allowance-to-ease-fuel-price-burden-on-wokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Makinde approves \u20a610,000 transport allowance to ease fuel price burden on wokers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor <strong>Seyi Makinde<\/strong> of <strong>Oyo State<\/strong> has approved a \u20a610,000 monthly transportation allowance for workers in the state to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision comes amid a sharp increase in the pump price of <strong>Premium Motor Spirit<\/strong>, which now sells between \u20a61,320 and \u20a61,330 per litre across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the <strong>Nigeria Labour Congress<\/strong> (NLC) in Oyo State, <strong>Kayode Martins<\/strong>, disclosed the development in a statement issued in Ibadan on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the allowance was approved following a formal request by the NLC as part of efforts to mitigate the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFollowing the intervention and formal request made by the State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) earlier this morning, the state government has approved a \u20a610,000 transportation allowance for all workers in the state,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The allowance is expected to take effect from April 2026 and is aimed at providing relief to workers facing increased transportation costs due to current economic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NLC noted that the move is a direct outcome of sustained advocacy by the union to support workers amid worsening financial pressures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details on the implementation of the allowance are expected to be announced by the state government in due course.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved a \u20a610,000 monthly transportation allowance for workers in the state to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices. The decision comes amid a sharp increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, which now sells between \u20a61,320 and \u20a61,330 per litre across the state. The Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[423,138,426,421,425,422,427],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-allowance","tag-approves","tag-burden","tag-makinde","tag-price","tag-transport","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}