Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced that his government plans to pay workers a minimum wage of N85,000.

Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Wednesday evening during an interview on a monitored television program 

Sanwo-Olu said he would be glad to come on air in January 2025 to announce that his government would be paying N100,000 minimum wage.

“We actually increased our salary earlier in the year and it’s deserving for our staff, and we’ll continue to do that. I want to come back to you in January and say that I’ve been able to increase the minimum wage in Lagos to N100,000. (This is) not because I want to make anybody look bad, it’s really because I want my people to have a living wage,” Sanwo-Olu said.

The governor stressed that he wanted people to know “that their government is working for them.”

He noted that his government would ensure that it tightened areas where serious expenses were not needed, so that “we’ll be able to give them (the workers) commensurate things that will take them home, not drop them at the bus stop.”

The governor’s commitment comes amid negotiations between state governments and organised labour on the implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage approved by the Federal Government.