Niger state governor, Mohammed Umar Bago has approved the payment of wage award of N20,000 for every civil servants 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.
President Tinubu had appealed to state governors to start paying the wage award pending the determination of the new minimum wage in order to reduce the hardship of the economy on the people.
Tinubu, who was in Minna on Monday, March 11, to commission the newly commissioned domestic terminal of the renamed Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport Minna and the massive agriculture mechanization project of Governor Mohammed Umar Bago, said that if the states had implemented the wage awards, it would provide much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures.
The president harped on the need for all states to adopt the wage award saying that the National Executive Council would also adopt it.
“If all of you, the sub-nationals have been paying the wages award, pending the determination of the new salary wage. Let all the state start paying the wages award. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage award would relieve the public.
