Tag: MINIMUM WAGE

Akpabio assures Nigerians FG will raise minimum wage

Aminu Imam

Mindful of the impact of removal of fuel subsidy on Nigerians, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has reassured the citizens of the country that the Federal Government will review workers’ pay upwards to cushion the effect of the hike in the price of PMS, a.k.a petrol.   He made this known on Tuesday, while hosting Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, and members of the state House of Assembly in his office at the National Assembly complex, Abuja. While addressing the delegation, Akpabio told Nigerians that the Tinubu-led government was aware of…

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‘Minimum wage need review to reflect realities’ ? Tinubu

Aminu Imam

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that the national minimum wage needs a review to reflect realities, assuring that improved livelihood for Nigerians remains a top priority of his administration, with more people-focused economic policies. He, therefore, advised that the national and sub-national governments should work together on the issue, which, according to him, already requires “soul searching.’’ The President made these declarations yesterday, when he received members of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) led by the Chairman, Hope Uzodinma, Governor of Imo State, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Tinubu…

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‘Nigeria’s minimum wage grossly inadequate, can’t meet basic nutritional needs of an adult’ – Report

Aminu Imam

Nigeria’s minimum wage cannot cater for the minimum nutritional needs of one adult person in a month, a new report by an international e-commerce company, Picodi, has found. The Picodi report, published yesterday, said the value of basic food products for the healthy living of an adult in a month, at the beginning of 2022, stood at N40,980, higher than the N30,000 minimum wage in Nigeria. This represents a 15.89% increase when compared to the beginning of 2021. The researchers compared the monthly minimum wage for full-time work in January…

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PGF DG slams NLC over minimum wage protest

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman has condemned in strong terms theprotest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) against the decentralization of minimum wage. Lukman in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday said the campaign for the retention of the minimum wage in the exclusive legislative list under the 1999 Nigerian Constitution as amended, is being handled by the leadership of organised labour, especially the NLC based on deliberate distortions of facts. He also called for the revival of the…

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Minimum Wage: No Nigerian worker should earn less than N100,000 – PGF DG

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman has described the N30,000 minimum wage campaigned by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the present day Nigeria for any family an apology, adding that the minimum wage for any optimally productive Nigerian worker should not be anywhere less than N100,000. The PGF DG, who made this known in a statement titled “True Federalism and Labour Issues,” on Sunday in Abuja, argued that it has become apparent that the leadership of labour unions in Nigeria…

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Minimum wage: NLC fixes March 10 for nationwide protest

Aminu Imam

The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), yesterday rose from an emergency meeting and announced a nationwide protest on March 10, over plans by the National Assembly to remove the national minimum wage from the Exclusive list. Recall that the House of Representatives last weekend debated a Bill to remove the powers to negotiate wage matters from the Exclusive to the Concurrent list, citing the inability of state governors to pay the present N30, 000 minimum wage for the move. The Bill, which was sponsored by Garba…

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Association angry with Osun, Ondo Governments over inability to pay minimum wage

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-owned Companies (SSASCGOC) has expressed dismay over the inability of the Osun and Ondo State Governments to pay minimum wage to workers. The Federal Government in October last year, approved a new minimum wage of N30, 000 for public sector workers but many State Governments have been struggling to pay the wage to their workers. Speaking with newsmen after a Central Working Committee meeting of the association in Kano at the weekend, the President-General of SSASCGOC, Muhammad Yunusa, expressed worry over the…

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FG extends suspension of new electricity tariff by 1 week

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Federal Government has extended the suspension of the new electricity tariff by one week. Professor James Momoh, Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said this when the ad hoc Technical Committee on Electricity Tariff submitted its interim report at a reconvene bilateral meeting between Federal Government and Organised Labour on Monday in Abuja. The new tariff was earlier suspended for two weeks and ended at midnight on October 11, when the organised labour suspended the planned industrial action over agitation on the hike in electricity tariff on Sept. 28.,…

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