The Senate has approved the thirty thousand naira new minimum wage for both Federal and State workers across the country.

The endorsement was made during today’s plenary after the National Minimum Wage Bill was passed by the Lawmakers.

Speaking at the plenary the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki expressed the hope that with the approval, workers will double their efforts to increase productivity.

He expressed optimism that its implementation will commence immediately.

Meanwhile, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has disclosed that it will soon compile and release names of people who have impersonated in its examinations in the past ten years.

This came as the board prepares to commence the 2019 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, billed to take place between April eleventh and fifteenth.

A total of One million nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand, one hundred and eighty-one candidates, have successfully applied to sit for it.

JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this during a meeting of critical stakeholders on strategic planning and preparations for supervision and evaluation of administration of 2019
Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Professor Oloyede, who decried the continuous impersonation in JAMB’s examinations despite the different measures adopted so far by the board to curb the menace, insisted that the names of impersonators in the past ten years will soon be published to serve as deterrent to others.

According to him, the development will also expose many people in high places who had in the past impersonated in the board’s examination.