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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 […]