Adegbite flays N400,000 minimum wage demand as unreasonable

Don’t onslaught connected Sallah eve, MURIC warns Labour

Chairman of the Lagos State section of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Stephen Adegbite, has urged organised labour to halt insisting connected N400,000 minimum wage, stressing that the magnitude is unreasonable. 

Meanwhile, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) warned the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) not to embark connected a onslaught connected the eve of Sallah.

Adegbite stated that determination was nary mode the Federal Government could wage implicit N400,000 minimum wage, “but if organised labour comes up with thing reasonable, it volition beryllium a starting point.”

Speaking to journalists aft the gathering betwixt the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and immoderate Christian leaders, yesterday, successful Abuja, Adegbite noted that the prices of commodities were already going up successful the market, adding that erstwhile the authorities increases the minimum wage, the prices would spell up the more. 

The CAN brag said the SGF had told the spiritual leaders that the minimum wage was beyond the organised labour due to the fact that “it affects everybody” and had reassured the radical that the authorities meant good for Nigerians. 

IN a statement, yesterday, MURIC’s Executive Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, said NLC’s one-week moratorium fell owed connected Tuesday, June 11, which is astir connected the eve of this year’s Id-el-Kabir (Salah).

Akintola cautioned that kicking disconnected different onslaught connected the eve of Sallah would beryllium seen arsenic an enactment of hostility towards Muslims, who signifier a ample conception of Nigeria’s population.

He advised the NLC to steer wide of Islamic landmarks and respect the Sallah holiday, informing that immoderate onslaught during the vacation would beryllium met with absorption from Muslims.

“We affirm clearly, categorically and emphatically that different onslaught connected the eve of Salah volition beryllium an anti-Muslim strike. Muslims are duty-bound to interruption it.”