Civil servants on the Federal government’s payroll will start receiving the new minimum wage payment from September 26, officials have said.
Spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa, reportedly disclosed this on Thursday.
He assured that workers would begin to receive credit alerts of their new minimum wage salary payment starting from Thursday.
However, Mokwa did not say if the minimum wage would be paid alongside its arrears.
He said: “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.”
His comment comes after 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.
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.