… FG offers N62,000; Labour reduces demand to N250,000 … Report to be forwarded to the President for further deliberation. ….Governors Reject N60,000. After two days of waiting, the negotiations over the national minimum wage hit another brick wall yesterday. At the end of yesterday’s meeting, the Federal Government negotiating team raised its offer by…
36 state Governors are not considering a minimum wage that is higher than N70,000, it was learnt last night. At a meeting yesterday (Thursday) in Abuja, the state helmsmen reviewed the economic situation and concluded that anything above N70,000 will not be affordable and sustainable. They ruled out the N100,000 option being dangled by some…
Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, on Wednesday on behalf of the Government side, met the 48-hour deadline to present a new minimum wage template to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to online reports, the template proposes a new minimum wage of N105,000 (approximately $220 USD) per month for Nigerian workers. Tinubu is currently reviewing…
•President orders minister to calculate cost, Labour gives one-week ultimatum Organised Labour may settle for between N100,000 and N120,000 minimum wage as the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage commences daily meetings for five days to reach a consensus. Multiple sources in the labour movement told The PUNCH on Tuesday that the union leaders were…
NLC and TUC have relaxed ongoing industrial action for 5days. The Organised Labour has suspended the nationwide strike for five days to give room for uninterrupted meeting with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage. The relaxation of the industrial action was ratified at the just concluded joint virtual meeting between NLC and…
The Federal Government has said it is ready to pay higher than N60,000 as minimum wage, urging organized labour to take the offer. It did not however state the specific amount. The figure was disclosed by the government late Monday after a meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC and its counterpart, the Trade Union…
IN SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING NIGERIAN WORKERS: A PRESS STATEMENT BY BARR. FEMI EMMANUEL EMODAMORI In August 2023, I published a statement which was widely reported on local and international platforms, that paying the Nigerian workers any minimum wage less than N120,000 per month is tantamount to treating them worse than the Nigerian prisoners, each of…
GOV AIYEDATIWA APPROVES 35K WAGE AWARD FOR STAFF OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Ondo State Governor, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has approved the payment of N35,000 monthly wage award for workers of state-owned tertiary institutions. The payment of the wage award, which is expected to run for six months, will begin from this month (June 2024). The…
By: Akeem Salami The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress have initiated a solidarity movement to ensure complete compliance with the nationwide strike currently underway. This action follows the strike warning issued by the association’s main body on Friday, May 31, 2024, with the strike commencing today, Monday, June 3, 2024. The Chairman of…
