Fubara Approves N85,000 As Minimum Wage For Rivers’ Workers
Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has approved the payment of N85,000.00 as the new minimum wage for civil servants in Rivers.
A statement signed by Fubara’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Nelson Chukwudi, said the agreement was reached during a closed-door meeting presided over by the governor and attended by representatives of organised labour under the auspices of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council in the State at Government House in Port Harcourt on Friday.
Speaking after the meeting, the Head of Rivers State Civil Service, Dr. George Nwaeke, affirmed that Fubara graciously approved N85,000 as the new minimum wage adding that the government would begin payment in November 2024.
George said: “He (Gov Fubara) has pronounced a figure that is higher than the National Minimum Wage. He pronounced a sum of N85,000.00, which is higher than the minimum wage that was prescribed nationally.
“So, as the Head of Service and a major stakeholder in the labour family, I am very happy to say that the Rivers State Civil Servants have never had it this good since the inception of this State.
“The labour union leaders and all the other major stakeholders were happy with this development.”
Responding to possible payment of arrears, Dr Nwaeke, said it was yet to be determined because a technical committee had been set up to critically work out a tenable payment chart, which would cater for issues of arrears.
He said: “Issues of arrears will be worked out by the committee that I am going to be Deputy to the SSG. We are already going to work on it in a technical committee that will now get the nitty gritty of the payment and inform the press later.”
On his part, the Rivers State Chairman of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, Emecheta Chuku, explained that it was their first meeting with Governor Fubara to discuss the issue of the new minimum wage as approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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