Minimum wage: Tinubu asks Edun to present realistic figures in 48 hours

President Bola Tinubu connected Tuesday directed the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to travel up with outgo implications connected the caller minimum wage and contiguous an affordable, sustainable and realistic fig wrong 2 days.

Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known portion fielding questions from newsmen astatine the State House, Abuja, aft a closed-door gathering with the President, authorities representatives and organised labour concerning the minimum wage negotiation.

Idris besides disclosed that President Tinubu directed the Minister of Finance to contiguous the caller minimum wage figures which volition signifier the ground of dialog with organised labour.

“The President has conscionable summoned a gathering of each those who negotiated connected behalf of the Federal authorities led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Minister of Finance was determination the Minister of fund planning, the Minister of Information, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, the Minister of Labour and the NNPCL GMD.

“We were each determination to look astatine each issues and the President has directed the Minister of Finance to bash the numbers and get backmost to him betwixt contiguous and time truthful that we tin person figures acceptable for dialog with labour.”

The Minister of Information expressed the preparedness of President Tinubu to judge the committee’s resolutions with the organised labour, adding that the medication is committed to the payment of Nigerians.

He affirmed the government’s concerns successful ensuring a equilibrium betwixt its committedness and the realities successful the country.

“And fto maine accidental that the President is determined to spell with what the committee has said and he’s besides looking astatine the payment of Nigerians

“Government is not against oregon hostile of labour discussions, authorities is not an hostile of wage summation but what is determination is that Governors are ever determination to guarantee that determination is simply a equilibrium betwixt what authorities pronouncement is and what the realities are connected crushed and truthful we volition enactment assiduously to guarantee that immoderate promises authorities marque is committedness that volition beryllium kept that is the thought of this meeting.”

Idris added that the President besides directed the authorities representatives to enactment with the organised backstage sectors and the sub-nationals to execute a caller affordable and sustainable wage grant for Nigerians.

“The President has fixed a matching bid that each those who person negotiated connected behalf of the Federal authorities and each those who are representatives of organised backstage sectors, the sub nationals to travel unneurotic to person a caller wage grant that is affordable, sustainable and that is besides realistic for Nigerians.

“The wage grant is not conscionable that of the Federal authorities similar I mentioned earlier, the sub-nationals are involved, the Organised Private Sector is involved, it was labour that stepped retired during that process present that we person travel backmost to the dialog table.”

The Minister assured that each parties to the dialog of the caller minimum wage would enactment with organised labour to contiguous a caller minimum wage for Nigerians successful 1 week.

“All of america volition enactment unneurotic assiduously wrong the adjacent 1 week to guarantee that we person a caller wage for Nigeria that is acceptable, sustainable and besides realistic.”