A list of Nigerian governors paying wage awards to Civil servants in thier various states has been revealed.
Following the withdrawal of petrol subsidy, President Bola Tinubu had announced the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers to cushion hardship in the country.
Since the removal of petrol subsidy, federal revenue has grown significantly.
DAILY GIST reports that President Tinubu, in March had also urged the 36 state governors to begin payment of wage awards to workers in their states.
The president stressed that the move will alleviate hardship in the country.
However, about 8 months after the announcement of the wage awards by the federal government, 15 states are still yet to do so while seven paid briefly and stopped.
The wage award was to lessen the burden of economic hardship on the citizenry pending the implementation of a new minimum wage.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, described the refusal of some states to pay the wage award to their workers as the height of insensitivity, lamenting the suffering workers were going through as a result of the anti-poor policies of the government.
Meanwhile, 15 states are paying sums ranging from N10,000 to N40,000 to their workers as wage awards or salary increments.
States that are not paying include one in the South-East, four in the South-South, three in the North-East, two in the North-Central and five in the North-West.
Meanwhile, states that paid wage awards for one to four months and stopped include Delta, Niger, Plateau, Kaduna, Bauchi and Nasarawa.
On the other hand, states that are paying are Lagos, Edo, Bayelsa, Imo, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Ondo, Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Kano, Kwara, Cross River and Taraba.
Some of the states have also extended the payment to local government employees and pensioners.
