Minimum Wage

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The national minimum wage bill has been passed by the House of Reps after considering the report of its ad hoc committee during plenary on Tuesday, January 29. The committee had approved N30,000 for both federal and state workers.

The Nigerian Labour Congress proposed that it should be four-year cycle, bearing in mind that major economic upheaval will adversely affect the value of the new minimum wage, saying this was in tandem with global best practice.

Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, while speaking at the public hearing on the national minimum wage bill in Abuja denied the report that the federal government agreed to pay N30,000 as the new minimum wage

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The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has explained that the proposed N30,000 new national minimum wage is not enough for the Nigerian worker considering current economic realities in the country.