Benue Assembly recommends N75,000 minimum salary for traditional rulers

The Benue State House of Assembly has called connected Governor Hyacinth Alia to o.k. an upward reappraisal of the salaries and allowances of accepted rulers crossed the state.

Lawmakers recommended that nary accepted ruler should gain beneath the nationalist minimum wage of N75,000, portion maintaining a remuneration operation based connected the class and presumption of each accepted institution.

They besides urged the authorities to supply authoritative vehicles for accepted rulers, opening with kindred heads, to fortify grassroots leadership.

The solution was reached during plenary presided implicit by the Speaker, Berger Alfred, pursuing deliberations connected matters relating to gross procreation and medication successful the state.

The Assembly besides mandated the Local Government Service Commission to organise capacity-building and integer grooming programmes for section authorities gross officers to fortify their capableness and amended transparency and ratio successful gross collection.

As portion of efforts to heighten oversight of the state’s gross system, lawmakers summoned the Executive Chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Mr Joseph Kwaghgba, to look earlier the House connected Tuesday, July 14, 2026.

The BIRS president ...