Governor Abdullahi Sule said he is ready to pay N70,000 national minimum wage to civil servants in Nasarawa state.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Sule on public affairs, Comrade Peter Ahemba, said the governor has already approved the payment of the new minimum wage.
According to Vanguard, Ahemba stated this while speaking at a media chat with the correspondent’s chapel.
“Governor Abdullahi Sule is more than ready to pay the ₦70,000 minimum wage passed into law and accented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. His Excellency Engineer Sule is committed to Workers’ welfare and the entire development of the state.”
He said Governor Sule commended the youths for shunning the ongoing protest against hunger and economic hardship....[CONTINUE READING HERE ▶▶]
“The government of Abdullahi Sule is aware of the current hardship everyone is going through and he is taking steps to address the current hardship through profitable youth engagement and entrepreneurship training as parts of his agenda of industrialisation.”
TheNGblog recalls that Barrister Anyakweh Miracle Amadi explained how the 36 state governors of the federation can be compelled to pay the new N70,000 minimum wage.
The Port Harcourt-based lawyer said the state houses of assemblies will have to enact a minimum wage bill to that effect.
