The Federal Government of Nigeria and the organized Labour have yet to come to a new minimum wage.
Punch reports that President Bola Tinubu made this known in his speech at the International Workers’ Day celebration in Abuja, the federal capital.
When he was interviewed by Punch, Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, faulted the workers for demanding 615,000 naira as minimum wage.
However, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, insisted that organized labour would not accept any amount that would impoverish its members.
Mr Tinubu had set up a tripartite committee of government, labour, and private sector representatives to review the current 30,000-naira minimum wage. Last month, the two central labour parties in the country, the NLC and the Trade Union Congress, submitted a proposal of 615,000 nairas to the committee.
However, the government failed to announce 515,000 naira as the minimum wage.
