Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto state has approved N70,000 minimum wage for the state workers.
He also presented N526.8 billion budget for 2025 to the State House of Assembly.
Presenting the budget on Friday, the governor said N176.2 was for recurrent expenditure and N349.3 for capital votes.
He said the education sector has the highest allocation of about 25 percent followed by the health.
Mr Aliyu said capital projects take the largest share of 66% of the total budget, while 44% goes to recurrent comprising of new Minimum wage for state workers, payment of pension and gratuity, as well as overhead cost of running government business.
“I here by inform you that all the projects we have executed, we did not borrow a single kobo from any financial institutions and to date, we are not owing any contractor in the state,” he said.
