Council of State approves N27,000 minimum wage
The National Council of State Tuesday approved a minimum wage of N27,000 which is N3,000 short of the N30,000 earlier recommended by the tripartite committee. This sets the stage for…
Minimum wage: labour to demand 2 years arrears payment
The Organised Labour on Wednesday said it would demand for two years arrears payment of the proposed new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers from the federal and state governments….
Lawyers to FG: Pay N30,000 minimum wage without delay
Some lawyers in Lagos on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government to yield to the demand of the labour over the N30,000 minimum wage. The lawyers, in separate interviews with…
Deadlock as Buhari meets governors over N30,000 minimum wage
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with representatives of Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) over the disagreement between the organised labour and state governors on the proposed N30,000…
Any governor who can’t pay N30,000 minimum wage should quit – Labour chiefs
Barely two weeks after submitting a committee report on the mew minimum wage to President Muhammadu Buhari, labour chiefs restated on Friday that workers were running out of patience with…
Buhari endorses N30,000 minimum wage; to transmit bill to NASS
A new minimum wage of N30, 000 has been endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari after the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage presented their report Tuesday. The President gave the…
No more strike; FG, Labour reach deal; new minimum wage figure to be released today
Labour leaders, who have called off a planned nationwide strike, have agreed a new national minimum wage at the end of negotiations with a Tripartite Committee, set up by the…
Labour absent at minimum wage meeting; logjam may be resolved today
Members of the Organised Labour on Sunday shunned the reconciliatory meeting with the Federal Government over the non-implementation of the N30, 000 new National Minimum Wage for workers in the…
Minimum wage: TUC rejects N22,500, strike begins next week
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has rejected the N22,500 minimum wage announced by the Governors’ Forum. It insists on N30,000 or nothing. Barring any intervention by the Federal…
Minimum Wage: Govs agree N22,500; We want N30,000 or nothing – Labour
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday agreed to pay a national minimum wage of N22,500 from the existing N18,000. But organized labour has insisted on N30,000 or nothing, saying…