Kaduna pays ₦72,000 minimum wage

— NLC Insists No Worker Must Be Left Behind

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo

The Kaduna State Government has commenced outgo of the caller ₦72,000 minimum wage, opening with civilian servants connected Grade Levels 1–6.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kaduna State Council, confirmed the improvement connected Thursday but stressed that the accommodation indispensable screen each categories of workers without delay.

Addressing a property briefing, State NLC Chairman, Ayuba Magaji Suleiman, described the commencement arsenic “a affirmative archetypal step” but insisted that teachers, wellness workers, unit of tertiary institutions, parastatals, and section governments indispensable besides benefit.

He explained that authorities had tied the afloat implementation to the ongoing unit and pension verification exercise, expected to extremity by September 2025.

“Workers person endured years of stagnated wages portion ostentation bites harder. The ₦72,000 minimum wage is not a favour—it is simply a right. Every worker, from authorities to section government, acquisition to healthcare, indispensable beryllium carried along,” Suleiman declared.

While welcoming plans to follow caller wage structures for wellness workers nether CONMESS and CONHESS, the labour person lamented that teachers and section authorities employees remained excluded.

He vowed that the NLC would prolong unit until the caller wage is afloat implemented crossed each sectors.

“We are successful changeless dialog with the government. Workers indispensable stay calm and vigilant, but we guarantee them that we volition not remainder until each idiosyncratic receives their rightful pay,” Suleiman added.

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