Civil servants will start getting new minimum wage this month – FG

The federal government says civil servants in its payroll will start receiving the new minimum wage payment from Thursday, September 26.

Bawa Mokwa, the Spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, disclosed this in an interview on Thursday.

He assured that workers will begin to get alert of their new minimum wage salary payment starting from Thursday.

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 from 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 DAILY POST.

Thefrontrank reports that the Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, on Tuesday confirmed that the government had approved the upward review of consolidated public service salary structure, CONPSS in line with the minimum wage(Amendment) Act, 2024.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had on July 29, signed into law N70,000 new Minimum wage.