States yet to commence payment of wage award to cushion the effect of subsidy pain may be in for a raw deal.

Labour centre – Trade Union Congress (TUC) – has expressed its intention to take on such states.

As part of measures to mitigate the effect of petrol subsidy withdrawal, the Federal Government and states have introduced many measures, one of which is the wage award.

The Federal Government has been paying its workers N35,000 monthly for five months.

Not less than 14 states have been paying amounts ranging from N10,000 to N35,000 for worker.

On Monday in Minna, Niger State, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appealed to the states that have yet to pay to emulate the Federal Government to key in, pending the conclusion of work by the Tripartite Committee on New Minimum Wage.

A day after the President’s appeal, Governor Umaru Bago announced that Niger State workers would from this month begin to earn N20,000 wage award.

Kwara, Gombe and Rivers states are on the list of states paying the wage award.

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