According to a news report from Vanguard, the Kwara State government announced on Thursday its support for the federal government’s forthcoming decision on the new minimum wage for civil servants.

Additionally, the government revealed significant progress on the ongoing Overhead Bridge in the state capital, which is now 60% completed.

These updates were provided by the Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Bola Olukoju, and her counterpart in the Works and Transport Ministry, Alh AbduQuyyi Olododo, during the inter-ministerial press briefing on Monday, marking the one-year anniversary of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s second term in office.

While responding to the amount the state government will pay civil servants in the state as new minimum wage, the Communications Commissioner said: “We are also waiting for the federal government, whatever the federal government do is what we’ll discuss about, we are queuing behind the federal government.”

She also explained that Inter state agency and parastatals reshuffling of staff in the ministry of Communications that is generating controversy is to ensure increased productivity of the staff, and it’s already yielding the targeted maximum results.

The Commissioner added that the state owned Herald Newspapers has been revitalised to circulate beyond Kwara state stressing that, it’s now circulating in Niger, Kogi and Oyo states.