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The Federal Government has called on state governors to start paying the new national minimum wage of N70,000 if they haven’t done so yet.

The appeal was made by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, on Monday.

Akume spoke with reporters after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja.

Akume said that the federal government is fully committed to ensuring workers receive fair pay.

Akume explained that President Tinubu had prioritized the minimum wage issue early in his administration. According to him, he set up a special committee that included representatives from the federal government, state governors, and the private sector to review and agree on a fair wage. This effort led to the approval of the N70,000 minimum wage.

While some states have already started paying the new wage—and a few even offer more than N70,000—others are still lagging behind. Akume praised the states that have already implemented the increase and encouraged others to quickly follow suit.

He said, “The issue of the new minimum wage has always been central to the thinking of the government of President Bola Tinubu, and that was why he quickly put in place a tripartite arrangement to look at all the issues, and this was properly carried out.

“The governors were represented, the federal government was represented, the organised private sector was also part of it. So we arrived at the new minimum wage.

“We are very satisfied with it and some state governments have started implementing. Others have even gone beyond N70,000. So I believe that there’s no problem with that whatsoever.

“We applaud those who have started. Those who have not started, we just want to appeal to them to start the payment”, he further said.

States already paying the new minimum wage include Ogun, Ekiti, Sokoto, Kebbi, Osun, Enugu, Borno, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara, Gombe, Kano, Taraba, Delta, Rivers, Jigawa, Abia, Edo, Lagos, Adamawa, and Akwa Ibom.

Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/fg-sends-message-to-governors-not-paying-new-minimum-wage/

Hmm, a good move. Kudos to FG

Nice on FG

The way Nigerians skip their the closest Govt to attack the FG on all basic stuff is annoying

State Govs should start paying this asap. Dem just wan dey useless

Make fg increase allawee for corp members

Karl Marx said this

About a century ago

It's the proletariat Against the burgeiose

Choose a side

OnlineAmebo:
Karl Marx said this

About a century ago

It's the proletariat Against the burgeiose

Choose a side

The side they chose in animal farm,how did it end?

How about being in the middle and never choosing a side. With personal development you get to navigate both sides

💁‍♂️

Not paying kwa..


There should be uniformity..

More like poking your nose into what you don't have powers or influence over. Better to address the enormous challenges facing the economy which keeps nose diving every minute.

Nigerians will totally ignore their
local govt chairman,
house of Assembly,
house of Representatives,
Senators
and Govs
and be running after the president

No be juju be that?

Now I see the reason behind the approval going on.

70k way no fit buy a bag of rice.. where do we go from here .. Transport fee has become a night mare

Soludo of ndi Anambra is a dis grace

How about private establishments?

FG themselves are yet to pay some people the new minimum wage

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Kosiso12:
Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/fg-sends-message-to-governors-not-paying-new-minimum-wage/

Kindly remove Osun state from the list of states that have started paying the new minimum wage...

Point of correction Lagos hasn't started paying as at October. This is a misinformation

BUSHHUNTER:
Lagos is yet to pay the new minimum wage...ask any civil servant you know in lagos.

Don't mind the jobless media

These people too dey lie

Minimum wage of poverty

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How can one monitor the funds going to the LG, senates, HOR and State Government?

There should be more activities in these places!

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States gradually answering to FG.

Typicool8:
Make fg increase allawee for corp members

Don't mind the clout chasing FG.

The bill was signed in June, yet there’s been no progress.

In August, the NYSC Director General issued an official broadcast stating that all corps members would soon receive the new minimum wage. This announcement raised everyone’s hopes, but only led to disappointment. We received the usual 33k late, along with another broadcast claiming the NYSC bill wasn’t signed and that funds weren’t available to pay the new minimum wage.

Corps members are struggling to survive on 33k, which barely covers basic needs.

When the 33k allowance was introduced, a bag of rice was around 9,000 Naira—you could buy three bags with your allowance in 2019. Now, a bag of rice reportedly sells for 160,000 Naira in Gombe yesterday, making it impossible for corps members to even afford a quarter of a bag with their full allowance.

I’m a corps member—a struggling one.
I've gone from three meals a day to one.
I'm not even joking here.

Each day, I wake up ready to fight for my survival.
It’s a constant battle.

It's as if Tinubu was given a deadline to kill us.