Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has announced the approval of the N70,000 minimum wage for workers in the state.
News About Nigeria reports that the governor made the announcement late Friday evening after a meeting between various labour leaders and the state government held at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, in Akwa, the state capital.
According to the governor, payment of the new minimum is to commence with immediate effect.
Giving details on the new minimum wage, the governor stated that the least paid worker in Anambra State will go home with nothing less than N70,000, even though it could be more ranging between N78,000 and N84,000, depending on the outcome of the tabulation by the government team.
He also approved a monthly cash award of N10,000 to all pensioners in the state, until a time the pension salary shall be reviewed.
He said, “This interim cash award was necessitated on my goodwill and empathy for the situation of the pensioners, who nobody remembers in all the noise about the new minimum wage. The state government is committed to a better-secured Anambra. The state, in days to come, shall take delivery of hundreds of security vehicles for the vigilante groups and other security agencies even as other security measures are being negotiated.
“We urged workers to think positively about a contributory pension scheme to save themselves from pension agonies. The earlier the state workers return to the Contributory Pension scheme, the better for them,” the governor added.
Reacting to this, the NLC Chairman, Humphrey Nwafor, said the governor made the negotiations easier with the approvals and thanked him for being “worker-friendly,” even as he requested him to always do more for Anambra workers as a father.
