Niger State Governor Umar Bago has announced N80,000 minimum wage for civil servants in the state, effective from November 2024.
Bago announced this shortly after meeting with the organised labour in Niger State at the Government House in Minna, the state capital, on Friday, October 25, 2024.
The governor said the payment would be for both the state and the local government workers effective from November.
Bago said the committee on the minimum wage would work on the consequential adjustments.
He noted that the N80,000 was sustainable, especially with the state’s strides in agriculture.
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The governor enjoined civil servants to embrace agriculture, adding that civil service farms would be created to make them productive.
Also speaking, the Niger State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Idrees Lafene, commended the governor for approving N80,000 as minimum wage.
Lafene said such a move was a step forward, adding that the union look forward to an improved offer.
He, however, appreciated the governor for going beyond the union’s expectation, saying the union had tabled between N70,000, N75,000, and N80,000 as minimum wage for workers in Niger State.
It would be recalled that President Bola Tinubu announced N70,000 minimum wage for federal workers with effect from July 2024, after months of negotiations with labour unions.
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