President Bola Tinubu has extended the N25,000 wage increment to all levels of workers in the civil service.
According to NTA, this was disclosed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Gbajabiamila said the twenty-five thousand naira earlier announced by President Bola Tinubu for low-grade federal workers as intervention would now to cut across all levels of workers.
Sunrise recalls that Tinubu had announced earlier on Sunday a N25,000 wage award to low grade workers in the civil service, as part of measures to cushion the impact of the fuel subsidy removal policy.
The President made the pledge on Sunday during his nationwide broadcast to mark the Independence Day anniversary.
He noted that the salary increase will last for a period of six months.