Minimum wage: Northern governor ready to pay workers N70,000, details emerge

  • Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni has expressed readiness to pay workers in the state the newly approved N70,000 minimum wage
  • To achieve this, Governor Buni approved the constitution of a 10-member committee to oversee the payment of the new national minimum wage
  • The Head of Civil Service in the state, Hamidu M. Alhaji, confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday and shared further details

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state has constituted a ten-man committee that would work out modalities for the successful implementation of the new national minimum wage recently approved by the federal government.