Niger State Government Pledges To Pay N30,000 Minimum Wage Next Year

The Niger State Government has pledged its readiness to pay the civil servants in the state N30,000 minimum wage beginning from next year.

Briefing on the budget breakdown at government house,Minna, the Niger State Commissioner of Finance,Alhaji Abubakar Zakari, said that the government only needed an additional N7,500 for each of the civil servants to achieve such feat.

According to him, with the refunds expected from the federal Government and other sources, the state would be able to conveniently pay the civil servants without feeling it much.

He said that with the current salary of N22,500, an additional N7,500 would complete the minimum wage of N30,000.

Speaking on the funds expected to meet up this payment, Zakari said that the state government is expecting refunds from the federal government to the sum of N133 million, dividend of N400 million from North-South Power and accumulated sum of N3.8 billion as grand rent for land use from NECA.

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He assured that the state now has adequate provision to meet up all requirements for the payment of the minimum wage by 2020.

The Commissioner further assured the people of the state that funds would be made available to complete all ongoing projects stressing that the “era of uncompleted projects in the state is over.”