Civil servants under the federal government payroll will start receiving the new minimum wage payment from Thursday, 26 September, 2024
The spokesperson of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa disclosed this in an exclusive interview with an online medium on Thursday, 26 September, 2024.
Mokwa, who assured that workers will begin to get alert of their new minimum wage salary payment starting from Thursday,26 September, however, did not state if the minimum wage would be paid alongside its arrears.
“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 the online medium.
His comment comes after the Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, on Tuesday,24 September, 2024 confirmed that the government has 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 18 July, 2024.
Thereafter, the Senate Passed the new minimum wage bill into law.
