Governors meet to discuss local council autonomy and minimum wage

Governors of 36 states on Wednesday met in Abuja to discuss the latest financial autonomy granted to local councils by the Supreme Court.

They also discussed a new national minimum wage of N70,000.

Other issues discussed at the meeting were the United Nations General Assembly; State Contribution and Shareholders’ Rights in the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).

The governors also received presentations from the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate and the World Bank Country Office.

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The meeting which was chaired by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State was attended by governors Alex Otti (Abia), Usman Ododo (Kogi), Charles Soludo (Anambra), Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta), Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau), Mai Mala Buni (Yobe) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo).

Others Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Hyacinth Alia (Benue), Bassey Otu (Cross River), Lucky Aiyedatiwa (Ondo), Dauda Lawal (Zamfara), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Douye Diri (Bayelsa), Abba Kabir-Yusuf (Kano ), Ahmed Aliyu (Sokoto), Nasiru Idris (Kebbi), Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Abiodun Oyebanji (Ekiti), and Umo Eno )Akwa-Ibom).

Also present at the meeting were the deputy governors of Borno and Enugu states.

The Supreme Court granted total autonomy to the country’s 774 local government areas on July 11.

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