FG agrees to pay more than N60,000 as minimum wage

The Federal Government says, successful the nationalist interest, it is acceptable to connection a higher nationalist minimum wage than the N60,000 it earlier projected to the tripartite committee deliberating connected the issue.

The government’s determination was disclosed astatine a gathering of the committee convened Monday nighttime by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, aft the organised labour embarked connected an indefinite onslaught to property its request connected the nationalist minimum wage.

In a circular jointly issued by the committee members astatine the extremity of the gathering and made disposable to newsmen, it was resolved that President Bola Tinubu expressed his committedness to a nationalist minimum wage higher than N60,000.

“Arising from the above, the Tripartite Committee is to conscionable each time for the adjacent 1 week with a presumption to arriving astatine an agreeable nationalist minimum wage.

“Labour, successful deference to the precocious esteem of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria’s committedness above, undertakes to convene a gathering of its organs instantly to see this commitment.

“The committee besides resolved that nary idiosyncratic volition beryllium victimised arsenic a effect of the concern action,” the circular work successful part.

In attendance astatine the gathering were: Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and National Orientation, and Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, Minister of State for Labour and Employment.

For the Organised Labour: Joe Ajaero, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Festus Osifo, President, Trade Union Congress (TUC).

It volition beryllium recalled that pursuing the dialog by the tripartite committee connected the nationalist minimum wage and the consequent withdrawal of Labour from dialog and its indefinite strike, the authorities had convened the gathering with labour.