Seventeen state governors have formed committees to implement the new N70,000 minimum wage for workers across the country.
The states that have set up these implementation committees are Ogun, Ekiti, Sokoto, Kebbi, Osun, Enugu, Borno, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara, Gombe, Kano, Taraba, Delta, Rivers, Jigawa, and Abia.
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This move comes as the Federal Government began paying the new minimum wage to its 1.2 million workers last Thursday.
The Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, in a memo to the Budget Office, stated that civil servants would receive the updated wage from September.
In addition, Edo, Lagos, and Adamawa states have already started paying the new salary, while Anambra has pledged to implement the minimum wage in October.
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What of pensioners?