State government approves wage award for all workers

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, has given the go ahead for the disbursement of a N20,000 wage award to all civil servants in the state.

This decision was made during the state Executive Council meeting in Minna on Wednesday.

The approval of the wage award comes in response to President Bola Tinubu’s call for state governments to implement such payments to alleviate economic burdens.

“Please, I am not giving an order, I am appealing to you states, start paying the wages awards, let everyone start paying it. It is a relief to the people.

“The mechanism is the fact that that it won’t be inflationary if we announce the new salary wage in a few weeks or months, they would have gotten use to the basic wages of N30,000 plus the wages award, it will have dampening effect on the market. Please get sub-nationals together and NEC should adopt this”, Tinubu said.

Governor Bago assured that the payment would commence without fail, with workers set to receive alerts accordingly.