minimum wage
To cushion the consistent strike and grievances between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress, for not meeting up with Labour’s demand, FG is set to hold a nationwide hearing to decide the new minimum wage for workers. It is said that the hearing will be held at the six geopolitical zones with […]
President Bola Tinubu has directed the National Economic Council to come up with palliatives and the minimum wage review as part of measures to cushion impact of petrol subsidy removal. Speaking in a meeting with members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, in Abuja on Wednesday, President Tinubu directed NEC to mobilise various interventions […]
With the increase of pump prices across the country by the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the government of Edo State has announced an increase in the minimum wage from N30,000 to N40,000 in the state. The state governor, Godwin Obaseki announced on Tuesday and also reduced the number of […]
The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), says it will start the process of reviewing the national minimum wage on January 23. President Muhammadu Buhari signed the minimum wage act that approved N30,000 for both federal and state workers in 2019. Speaking in Abuja on Sunday, Emmanuel Njoku, the spokesperson of […]
The federal government says it will raise workers’ base salaries to meet the current realities in the economy of the country. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said this at the public presentation of the NLC of 40 publications titled, ‘contemporary history of working-class struggles’ held in Abuja on Monday. The N30,000 […]
Primary School Teachers, under the aegis of Basic Education Staff Association of Nigeria, BESAN, Delta State Chapter, have protested against the non-implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage in the past 15 months, lamenting that they were being sidelined in the scheme of things. The teachers who marched through the streets of Asaba called on […]
The Kano state government has stopped the payment of N30,000 minimum wage to its workers, reverting to N18,000 — the previous wage scale. Following pressure from organised labour, President Muhammadu Buhari in April 2019 signed the new minimum wage act into law, which stipulates N30,000 as the minimum wage. But Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, spokesperson to Abdullahi […]
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