Civil servants under the federal government payroll will start receiving the new minimum wage payment from Thursday, the 26th of September.
The Spokesperson of the Office of the Accountant-General of
the Federation, Bawa Mokwa disclosed this in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
He assured that workers will begin to get alert of their new
minimum wage salary payment starting from Thursday.
However, Mokwa did not state if the minimum wage would be
paid alongside its arrears.
He told our correspondent, “Federal Government civil
servants will start getting the new minimum wage from today(Thursday) this
September 2024. What I can tell you is that the minimum wage salary payment is
today I am not sure of the arrears”, he said
His comment comes after the Chairman of the National
Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, on Tuesday confirmed that the
government has approved the upward review of consolidated public service salary
structure, CONPSS in line with the minimum wage(Amendment) Act, 2024.
This followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s approval of
N70,000 new Minimum wage on July 18, 2024.
Thereafter, the Senate passed the new minimum wage bill into
law.
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