•Dr. Obinna Simon Chairmanship aspirant for Abuja Municipal Area Council under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dr. Obinna Simon, has urged council workers and teachers to use their votes to hold the current leadership accountable for not implementing the N70,000 minimum wage. Simon lamented that with the current economic str...
•Minimum wage Representatives of state governments at the last Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting have bemoaned the decision by the federal government to save additional revenue for the payment of the new minimum wage. This development, which affected their revenue distribution from the federation committee, was received with opp...
•Governor Otti Governor Alex Otti-led Abia State Government has denied that its recently approved N15,000 wage award for civil servants in the state for a period of three months was done as a result of the threat by the Organised Labour to embark on indefinite strike action from this week. It will be recalled that […]
•NLC President Ajaero The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero has warned against a recent decision of members of the National Assembly to remove Wage from the Exclusive legislative list to the Concurrent list. Comrade Ajaero gave the warning today while addressing participants at the opening ceremony of the 2024 a...
•Tinubu and Organised Labour leaders The Organised Labour yesterday kicked against the Federal Executive Council’s decision to step down the memorandum on the report of the Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage. The Head of Public Relations of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Benson Upah, who criticised the failure of FEC to consider t...
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted on negotiating the salary of its members with the Tinubu-led administration, thereby, rejecting the N35,000 wage award. ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this in Ibadan today at the inauguration of the secretariat of the University of Ibadan (UI) branch ...
Despite the federal government’s assurances that the new minimum wage will take effect from May 1, 2024, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), yesterday, said it is reviewing its individual fiscal space as state governÂments and the consequential impact of various recommendations, to arrive at an improved minimum wage they can pay sustainably. O...
•Tinubu and Kila Dear Mr President, Today’s epistle is a continuation of our reflections on the matter of raising wages to meet the rising cost of living. The unpopular, even indecent proposal, from this page is that we should resist the urge to go with the popular opinion and instead go for a new social […]
•Tinubu Dear Mr President Today’s epistle is directed at you to reflect on the issue of minimum wage in the country. I write directly to you Mr President in your position as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of all matters in the country including that of the economy in general and minimum wage in particular. […]
•Naira Not less than ten states are paying wage award to their workers, findings have shown. Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Jigawa are part of the 15 states surveyed by our correspondents yesterday, reports The Nation. Niger State yesterday approved payment of N20,000 each to its workers. Following the withdraw...
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