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FG, Labour agree to review minimum wage

By NAN
15 February 2017   |   4:26 pm
The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, says the Federal Government and the organised Labour movement in the country have reached a consensus to review the National Minimum Wage.

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (C) after a meeting with the country’s labour leaders on February 9, 2016. PHOTO: TWITTER/YEMI OSINBAJO

The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, says the Federal Government and the organised Labour movement in the country have reached a consensus to review the National Minimum Wage.

Wabba, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the consensus was reached during the sitting of the Technical Committee on Palliative.

He said the committee was meant to look into the framework to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians and cushion the effect of the increase in the price of fuel. He also noted that the report of the committee, which was also meant to discuss the issue of the minimum wage, was ready for submission.

“I think there is a consensus on the fact that nobody has said that the minimum wage should not be reviewed. The palliative report is ready and it would be submitted before the end of the month.

“At the last palliative meeting, labour leaders had requested that they needed to look at the main report of the committee before submission.

“So, the technical committee will have to submit its report to Mr President and not to the Minister of Labour and Employment,‘’ he said.

Wabba said that after the submission, the Presidency would then set up the tripartite committee that would involve the government, private and public sector.

The NLC President said that labour was hopeful that the minimum wage committee would be constituted soon. He said that labour had also received positive response from the National Assembly, saying that the Senate had promised to pass the bill.

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    The problem is not the min wage, it is the lack of resources to even pay the current wage. There are state workers and federal workers that have not being paid for a year. Organized labor need to fight for those wages to be paid, not increases of wages that are not already being paid. labor need to be fighting for effective governing and reducing the cost of governing. maybe then capital projects would be funded and economy would grow.

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      this is no lack of resources. there are more than enough resources to pay minimum wage.

      don’t you see the resources being looted wholesomely by the corrupt governors, ministers and senators??? that is the real problem. there are more looted funds than the budgets of all the federal, state and local governments put together. people like you must wake up to reality and not carried away by the false statements of these corrupt and fraudulent politicians who are busy looting our treasury day and night while telling us there are no resources to pay minimum wage?? either you are naive or gullible to the false utterances these fraudulent politicians.

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    ? ✅ ? We should ask the past government why they did not increase workers minimum wage when we sold oil $100 per barrel, now we sell at $50 una wan increase wage.

    I support dem pay rise, but how will states pay new amount when they keep looting or wasting their allocations, especially those corrupt governors and local government❓