Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has begun paying the new minimum salary of N85,000 to state workers.
This was revealed by Chukwuma Osunna, Chairman of the Nigeria Civil Service Union’s Rivers State Chapter.
“The Governor kept his word; as of today, November 27, 2024, I can report that he has paid the N85,000 new minimum salary to workers, and they are pleased.
“We met under the joint council, sat with the Head of Service, saw the salary chart and confirmed that the N85,000 is well calculated and implemented in the November salary of workers, so, payment started today and by tomorrow, other banks will start to pay too,” he told journalists.
He said the payment, which began with November salaries, has been widely celebrated by civil servants in the state.
Recall that Fubara had announced the wage increase in response to President Bola Tinubu’s approval of a N70,000 national minimum wage in July.
He had pledged a higher wage for Rivers workers, citing the state’s robust Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) as a sustainable source for the increase.
