Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state assured that the state government will implement the new minimum wage for civil servants from February this year.
Mai Mala Buni announced this in Damaturu while swearing the reappointed Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Baba Malam-Wali and eight newly appointed Permanent Secretaries.
The governor urged the appointees to be upright in their respective offices to help fast track development in the state.
Mala Buni, who also received a report of the state committee on education, said the challenge of the Boko Haram insurgency had set back the educational progress of the state by many years.
Buni said the government had commenced implementation of some of the recommendations of the committee with audit and verification of teachers.
