Minimum wage: Anambra civil servants to receive N70,000

The Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has announced the payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 for workers in the state.

According to Soludo, the least paid worker in the state could also earn between N78,000 and N84,000, depending on the outcome of the tabulation by the government team.

The governor stated this after a meeting with some labour leaders in the state at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, on Friday.

Soludo also approved a monthly cash award of N10,000 to all pensioners in the state, until a time the pension salary would be reviewed.

“This interim cash award was necessitated on my goodwill and empathy on the situation of the pensioners who nobody remembers in all the noise about new minimum wage.

“We urged workers to think positively about contributory pension scheme to save themselves of pension agonies. The earlier the state workers return to Contributory Pension scheme, the better for them,” the governor added.

Reacting, the NLC Chairman, Humphrey Nwafor, said the governor made the negotiations easier by his approval, describing him as “worker friendly.”

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