Sokoto State government has reiterated the need to embark on a wide-scale verification exercise to rid the state of ghost workers, child workers and bogus employment offers syndicates, just as it said it will begin pay of N30,000 minimum wage to workers in the state. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state disclosed this Thursday evening at the signing and submission of the report on the minimum wage by the committee on the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments, which is established to thrash out the matter. Announcing that his administration will commence implementation of the minimum wage from this month, Gov. Tambuwal scheduled a meeting of the state executive council meeting for Monday to consider the report. In his remarks, the chairman of the minimum wage implementation, Alhaji Muhammad Namadina Abdulrahman, summarized the suggestions of the committee to the state government as “salary and skills assessment of staff, decentralization of salary payments and the establishment of a revenue generation system by the state government.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 10, 2020 11:37 UTC