•Tinubu (middle) and Organised Labour leaders Organised Labour has called on Nigerians to be patient with the Federal and State Governments following the delay in the implementation of the new minimum wage. This was even as the workers’ union absolved the federal government of any wrongdoing, saying it would be unfair to conclude that there [&...
•Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has approved a new monthly minimum wage of N70,000 for workers on both state and local government payrolls. The decision was made during a meeting this afternoon with leaders of Organised Labour, reports The Nation. The state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Em...
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, has threatened to cripple the activities of states that refuse to implement the N70,000 new national minimum wage. President of the Association Shehu Muhammed, gave the threat yesterday during the association’s 5th Quadrennial Delegates Conference in Lagos, where he emerged as the new...
Twenty-seven states and the Federal Capital Territory have yet to set up committees to implement the recently approved N70,000 minimum wage. The states are Plateau, Kebbi, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Delta, Osun, Ekiti, Zamfara, Benue, Enugu, Taraba, Gombe, Kogi, Enugu, Adamawa, Niger, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Katsina, Kadu...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu, today, signed the new Minimum Wage Act into law. Tinubu signed the new law at 2 pm at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The brief ceremony was witnessed by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, and Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, among others.
As workers anxiously look forward to the commencement of the N70,000 new minimum wage any moment from now, unfortunately not every worker will be paid the new wage. Who are those that fall below the minimum wage threshold, and why? Investigation revealed that the Tripartite Committee on the New National Minimum Wage, before it ended […]
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced that the newly approved minimum wage applies universally to all workers in both the public and private sectors, including maids and other domestic staff. He made this statement during the plenary session yesterday. The bill was swiftly passed by both chambers of the National Assembly sho...
•Tinubu The Senate and the House of Representatives today speedily passed the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 (Amendment Bill). The bill, which scaled second and third readings at both legislative chambers in the National Assembly, just minutes after it was transmitted by President Bola Tinubu, was instantly passed separately by the red and gre...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today transmitted a national minimum wage bill to the House of Representatives in the National Assembly for consideration and passage. The president and the leadership of the Organised Labour had last Thursday agreed on ₦70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers, reports Channels TV. Information Minister...
•Bag of rice Senator Ali Ndume, lawmaker representing Borno South, is obviously not done with his criticism of President Bola Tinubu. His criticism of the president had led to his removal as Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, reports Daily Trust. His party had also asked him to quit and join an opposition party of […]
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