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Kogi State Governor Ahmed Ododo yesterday approved N72,500 as the new minimum wage for the state’s workers, effective from this month.
Ododo gave the approval after receiving the report of the state’s Minimum Wage Implementation Committee, headed by the Head of Service (HoS), Elijah Avenemi, at the Government House in Lokoja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had, on September 17, inaugurated the committee to design effective modalities for the implementation of the new minimum wage in the state.
The approved N72,500 minimum wage is N2,500 higher than the N70,000 national minimum wage bill passed by the National Assembly and signed into law in July by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The governor also gave tax relief to all the workers in the state for the next one year.
He reaffirmed his commitment to the overall welfare of all cadres of workers in the state, saying no Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) tax or any other form of deduction would be made within the next one year.
The governor sought the workers’ support for his administration to succeed, assuring them of continued prompt payment of their salaries.
The state’s Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Gabriel Amari, who spoke on behalf of the organised labour, praised the governor for being worker-friendly.
Amari expressed the workers’ appreciation to the governor for the seamless efforts at which the implementation committee arrived at the new minimum wage.
He promised, on behalf of the workers, to ensure that the workers remained more committed to their duties and cooperate with the governor to carry out his good plans for the state.
Source: thenatioonline.net
