Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has approved the payment of N20,000 wage award to every civil servant in the state.
This followed the appeal made by President Bola Tinubu to state governments to implement the payment of the wage award to help cushion the economic challenges faced by the people.
Tinubu had appealed to the governors to start paying the wage award pending the determination of a new minimum wage to reduce the hardship of the economy on the people.
Tinubu, who was in Minna, on Monday, to commission the new domestic terminal of the international airport renamed after him and the governor’s massive agriculture mechanisation project, said that if the states had implemented the wage awards, it would provide the much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures.
The President harped on the need for all states to adopt the wage award, saying the National Executive Council (NEC) would also adopt it.
Assuring that workers would begin to receive alerts to this effect, Bago said there would be feeding of people in various points of the wards during the Ramadan, while the state government would commence the distribution of 120 trucks of grains palliative to assuage the plight of the people.
