Abia Start N70,000 Minimum Wage October

The Abia State Government on Tuesday announced that it would begin the payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 in October 2024.

Releasing the information Tuesday morning while briefing the press on the outcome of this week’s State Executive Council meeting held on Monday and chaired by the state governor, Alex Otti, the state Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, said, “This was because of its disposition towards workers in the state.

“The state government is committed towards the minimum wage and because of this, within the next couple of days, the payment of the minimum wage will commence.

He averred that “it is known that there is a national minimum wage and the state will take it from there. However, if the governor wants to deviate from there, so be it.”

However in his speech, the Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Sunny Onwuma, emphatically confirmed that the state is paying the national minimum wage of N70,000.

The Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu also disclosed that nine new road projects are to be procured across the three senatorial zones of the state.