Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has approved a new minimum wage
of 104,000 naira for civil servants in the state.
He announced this during a meeting with various labour union leaders on
Tuesday night at the Government House in Owerri.
The minimum wage was increased from 76,000 naira to 104,000 naira.
Also increased was the minimum wage of doctors from 215,000 to 503,000
naira while those of teachers in tertiary institutions was increased from
119,000 to 222,000 naira, among others.
He said Imo citizens had faced numerous challenges since his government
took office, including insecurity, the COVID-19 pandemic, economic
hardship from reform policies, and disputes over minimum wage and
subsidy removal.
Uzodimma said that the state Internally Generated Revenue had grown
from 400 million to over three billion naira monthly.
The governor recalled that when he assumed office in 2020, the major
infrastructure in all sectors had totally collapsed.
He said a lot had been expended to rebuild the collapsed infrastructure
especially roads and combating the insecurity challenges, stressing that the
removal of fuel subsidy had equally raised the cost of living in Nigeria as
much as it had its own advantages.
