President Tinubu
Civil servants under the federal government payroll will start receiving the new minimum wage payment from Thursday, the 26th of September.
The Spokesperson of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa disclosed this in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST (not ABN TV) on Thursday.
He assured that workers will begin getting alerts of their new minimum wage salary payment starting Thursday.
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However, Mokwa did not state if the minimum wage would be paid alongside its arrears.
He told our correspondent, “Federal Government civil servants will start getting the new minimum wage today(Thursday) this September 2024. What I can tell you is that the minimum wage salary payment is today I am not sure of the arrears”, he told our correspondent.
On Tuesday, his comment comes after the Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, confirmed that the government has approved the upward review of consolidated public service salary structure, CONPSS in line with the minimum wage(Amendment) Act, 2024.
This followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s approval of N70,000 new Minimum wage on July 18, 2024.
Thereafter, the Senate passed the new minimum wage bill into law.
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