Pay N70,000 minimum wage, FG tells govs

The federal government has asked state governments yet to commence payment of the new N70,000 minimum wage to do so without further delay.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, made this appeal on Monday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu, applauding the states that have commenced paying workers the new minimum wage.
The SGF said the issue of the new minimum wage had always been central to the thinking of President Tinubu, which was why he quickly put in place a tripartite arrangement to look at all the issues.
He added that the Federal Government and the governors were represented, stating that the organized private sector was also part of the arrangement to arrive at the new minimum wage.
He said, “We are very satisfied with it. And some state governments have started implementing it. Others have even gone beyond N70,000. So I believe that there’s no problem with that whatsoever.
“We applaud those who have started, and those who have not started, we just want to appeal to them to start the payment.”