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Sanwo-Olu approves 20% salary increase for Lagos civil servants

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved a 20 per cent salary increase for civil servants in the state.

This was disclosed via a tweet by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, on his Twitter account on Monday.

Akosile stated that Sanwo-Olu approved the salary increment on Monday, adding that the increment would affect civil servants in the mainstream public service, Local Government Areas, Local Council Development Areas, and SUBEB.

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“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, today, approves a 20 per cent increase in the salaries of civil servants in the mainstream public service, Local Government Areas & Local Council Development Areas as well as SUBEB.

“New salary structure takes effect from January 1, 2023,” the CPS tweeted.

The salary increment comes a few hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the March 18 gubernatorial election in Lagos State.

The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Adenike Oladeji, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, declared that Sanwo-Olu polled 762,134 votes to defeat Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) who scored 312,329 votes, while Olajide Adeniran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) occupied the third position with 62,449 votes.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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