Ebonyi State Government says it has concluded arrangements to begin the implementation of the payment of Federal Government’s approved National Minimum Wage to civil servants in the State starting this September, 2024.
The state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Jude Okpor disclosed this in an interview on Wednesday.
Okpor explained that the implementation was part of the Governor’s economic policies of improving the living standards of citizens of the State.
According to him, the administration of Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru of Ebonyi State was the first in the South East region to agree to the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage for workers.
He noted that the empowerment packages of the present administration were in different categories as many indigenes and non-indigenes have been benefiting from the empowerment Programmes of the Governor.
