Adamawa commences N70,000 minimum wage payment

The Adamawa State Government has started paying the N70,000 minimum wage to its workers.

On Saturday morning that this month’s salary was paid on Friday, August 23, the 23rd of every month being the day that workers on the state government payroll usually receive their pay.

The N70,000 minimum wage paid on Friday came as the fulfilment of a promise by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri that the new minimum wage would be effective beginning this month.

A civil servant, Amos Tumba, said of the new trend, “I can confirm to you that the salary increase has been effected and I received it.”

Another government worker, Amma Yohanna, said, “Yes, they have paid, and it’s the new package.”

The likelihood of the new minimum wage being paid for August was indicated earlier in the week, on Monday, August 19, when Governor Fintiri gave the assurance to visiting labour leaders.

This was later that day disclosed to newsmen by the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Emmanuel Fashe, after a closed-door meeting at the Government House Yola when Fintiri gave the assurance.

Fashe had added, however, that while state government workers would receive the new minimum wage this month, their counterparts at the local government level would wait until next month, September 2024.