Lagos ups the minimum wage ante, to pay N85,000
By Emma Ogbuehi
Civil servants in Lagos have a reason to be joyful as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced on Wednesday that the minimum wage for civil servants in the state has been set at N85,000.
With this announcement, Lagos now tops the chart, even better than the Federal Government.
The minimum wage is now N70,000.
The governor made this announcement in an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday.
He said: “I’m glad to let you know that the minimum wage for Lagos, which we have discussed with our union, is N85,000 today.”
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Speaking as the guest on Politics Today, Sanwo-Olu said the state is paying N85,000 because it has the capacity to do so.
He said: “It is not a competition. So I am not going to say we are paying more than some other people. It is a function of affordability and it is a function of capacity.
“But we know too well that when people live in Lagos, Lagos has a premium in terms of even the cost of living; we are fully aware.
“We actually increased salaries earlier in the year.
“I would like to come back to you in January to say I have been able to increase the minimum wage of Lagos to N100,000.
“Not because I want to make anybody look bad. It is really because I want my people to have a living wage
“I want them to really be able to know that government is working for them,” Sanwo-Olu said.
