Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has revealed that workers in the state have been enjoying an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January.
At a state function on Thursday, Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the state government would soon roll out a new minimum wage scheme.
He stated that workers currently earning a minimum wage of N35,000 or more have taken home 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.
Governor Sanwo-Olu further announced that his administration would distribute food items to 500,000 households in the state through unions and local governments to ameliorate the current economic hardship.
He also discussed the ‘Ounje Eko’ initiative, which offers food items at discounted prices. “We created 59 makeshift markets outside of the regular markets out of our 57 local government and local council development areas and made it a Sunday-Sunday market,” he added.