Soludo Announces ₦70,000 Minimum Wage for Anambra Workers

Kehinde Fajobi

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has approved the immediate payment of a new minimum wage of ₦70,000 for state workers, with some employees receiving between ₦78,000 and ₦84,000, depending on final calculations by government officials.

The announcement followed a Friday meeting at the Governor’s Lodge in Amawbia with labour leaders from across the state. Soludo also approved a ₦10,000 monthly cash award for all pensioners until a formal pension review takes place.

He said this interim payment was “necessitated by my goodwill and empathy for the situation of the pensioners who nobody remembers in all the noise about the new minimum wage.”

Governor Soludo emphasised his administration’s commitment to security, promising that “the state, in days to come, shall take delivery of hundreds of security vehicles for the vigilante groups and other security agencies.”

He also encouraged workers to consider the contributory pension scheme to help secure their retirement.

The labour delegation included NLC Chairman Humphrey Nwafor, Trade Union Congress Chairman Chris Ogbonna, and JNC Chairman Edith Onwuka, alongside representatives from unions such as NUJ, JUSUN, NULGE, NUT, and NUP.

NLC Chairman Nwafor expressed gratitude for the governor’s “worker-friendly” stance, saying the approvals made negotiations smoother.

He added that Soludo’s donation of land for the NLC State Secretariat, or Workers’ House, was unprecedented, as no governor had allocated such a space since Anambra’s creation in 1991.