President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged state governors to begin paying wage awards while the new minimum wage is determined, in order to alleviate the people’s economic hardships.
The president emphasized that if the states had implemented the wage awards, it would bring much-needed assistance while avoiding inflationary pressures.
Speaking in Minna at the launch of the agricultural mechanization revolution for food security and the commissioning of the remodeled domestic terminal of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport, the President stated that all states must adopt the wage award, and that the National Executive Council will do the same.
He said: “If all of you, the sub-nationals have been paying the wages award, pending the determination of the new salary wage. Let all the states start paying the wages award. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage award would relieve the public.
“Please, I am not giving an order, I am appealing to you states, start paying the wages awards, let everyone start paying it. It is a relief to the people. The mechanism is the fact that it won’t be inflationary if we announce the new salary wage in a few weeks or months, they would have gotten used to the basic wages of N30,000 plus the wages award, and it will have a dampening effect on the market. Please get sub-nationals together and NEC should adopt this.”
