Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has announced that workers have been enjoying an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January.
He also revealed that the state government would soon introduce a new minimum wage scheme.
According to the governor, workers currently earning a minimum wage of N35,000 or more have been receiving a salary of N70,000 or above since the beginning of the year.
“The civil servant and all public officers in Lagos know that since January, we have continued to pay the wage allowance of a minimum of N35,000 over and above what they were earning before.
“What this means is that people that are earning a minimum of N35,000 or more before are now earning over N70,00. That is what they have been enjoying since January.
“So it is important for people to know that we make these things very clear that this government has doubled up to ensure that at this difficult time, it has not left the citizens on their own,” Sanwo-Olu said at a state function on Thursday.
The governor while giving an update on the intervention the state embarked on to ameliorate the current economic hardship, said his administration will distribute food items to 500,000 households in the state through unions and local governments.
Speaking on the ‘Ounje Eko’ initiative, where food items are sold at discounted prices, the governor said, “We created 59 makeshift markets outside of the regular markets out of our 57 local government and local council development areas and made it Sunday-Sunday market.”
