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Gov Ahmed hints Kwara may delay in paying N30,000 minimum wage

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Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed has given a hint that his government may delay in paying the new minimum wage in the state.

During this year’s Workers’ Day celebration in Ilorin, the state capital, on Wednesday, Governor Ahmed said the delay in the release of the “minimum wage template by the National Salary, Income and Wages Commission may stall early implementation of the new N30,000 minimum wage for the workers” in the state.

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According to Governor Ahmed who was represented at the gathering by the state’s Head of Service, Mrs Modupe Oluwole, the minimum wage “template is the basic working tool which the 13-man committee set up by the government would use to determine new minimum wage that will be implemented.”

He also added that the minimum wage reviewing committee constituted by the government was set up to enable workers enjoy the new salary as soon as implementation commences.

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