Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State approved a N35,000 monthly wage award for workers at state-owned tertiary institutions on Monday.
This decision followed a meeting last week in Akure with the heads of these institutions and workers’ leaders.
According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Ebenezer Adeniyan, the payment will commence in June 2024 and continue for six months.
Previously, workers at the tertiary institutions had protested their exclusion from a similar N35,000 monthly wage award given to civil servants from November 2023 to April 2024.
The state government had initially intended for the institutions to pay the award from their subvention, which had been increased.
However, the institutions’ inability to pay from the subvention prompted the Governor’s intervention. To fund this new wage award, the government reduced the civil servants’ monthly award from N35,000 to N15,000.
Additionally, pensioners in the state are receiving a N10,000 monthly wage award.
