New minimum wage: Ondo, Nasarawa assure workers of payment

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The Ondo State Government, on Tuesday, expressed its readiness to pay the N70,000 national minimum wage to the state civil servants. The state’s Head of Service, Mr Bayo Philip, stated this while speaking in his office, in Akure, the state capital.
 
The minimum wage was approved by President Bola Tinubu last month after a series of negotiations with the organised labour unions in the country. According to him, the governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, had repeatedly assured all that his administration would not do anything less than whatever is approved by the Federal Government as the national minimum wage for workers.
   
He noted that the state government also extended the gesture to retirees and workers in all state-owned tertiary institutions as a way to ameliorate the current economic situation in the country.
 
Similarly, the Nasarawa State Government said it was ready to pay the new N70,000 minimum wage to civil servants in the state. Peter Ahemba, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Abdullahi Sule on Public Affairs, stated this on Tuesday in Lafia.