Minimum Wage: Jubilation As 17 Governors Agree to Pay Workers N70,000, Set Up Panels
- Good news for workers as 17 state governors have set up committees that will oversee the implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage
- According to reports released on Monday, the states ready to pay workers the newly approved wage are Ogun, Ekiti, Sokoto, Kebbi, Osun, Enugu, Borno and 10 others
- This is after the federal government announced that civil servants will be paid the N70,000 new minimum wage from September 2024
Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.
Seventeen state governors have set up committees to implement the N70,000 newly approved minimum wage for workers across the country.
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The 17 states that set up the implementation committees are Ogun, Ekiti, Sokoto, Kebbi, Osun, Enugu, Borno, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara, Gombe, Kano, Taraba, Delta, Rivers, Jigawa, and Abia.
As reported by The Punch on Monday, September 30, the development occurred as the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu commenced payment of the new minimum wage to its 1.2 million workers last Thursday.
The Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, confirmed the development in a memo to the Budget Office of the Federation.
Meanwhile, Edo, Lagos, and Adamawa states have also commenced payment of the new salary but Anambra state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, pledged to implement the minimum wage in October 2024.
Reacting, the chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Adamawa state, Emmanuel Fashe, confirmed that Governor Ahmadu Fintiri started paying the new minimum wage in August 2024, ahead of Tinubu and other states.
Fashe, who spoke to The Punch on Sunday, September 29, said that Fintiri paid the state workers their August salaries but the local government workers received their new minimum wage in September.
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NLC: N70k minimum wage now useless
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Nigeria Labour Congress expressed regret for accepting the N70,000 minimum wage.
At a recent event in Lagos state, Joe Ajaero lamented that the N70,000 wage has been rendered useless as petrol prices skyrocket and economic hardship persists.
The NLC president also lamented that Tinubu betrayed organised labour by increasing fuel prices immediately after signing the new minimum wage bill into law.
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