GOVERNOR Francis Nwifuru has approved the payment of N70,000 new minimum wage to civil servants in the state.
The Governor disclosed this while speaking to a group of journalists at New Government House in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital.
Governor Nwifuru noted that the N70,000 minimum wage is not a salary increment, adding that the new minimum wage entails the least payment of a worker is N70,000 and not the entire workforce.
He further directed the State Head of Service to draft out modalities for the payment of the new minimum wage.