President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerian workers over the new minimum wage, saying the Federal Government is working on it. Buhari said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 12th National Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). He was represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari.The national minimum wage dispute is far from being over following the decision of the House of Representatives to pass N30,000 as the new wage. It will be recalled that the lawmakers had passed the N30,000, on Wednesday, an amount higher by N3,000 than the N27,000 President Muhammadu Buhari presented to the National […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said welfare of workers and pension of the retirees will be the priority of his government if elected. Sanwo-Olu said no worker in the state would be denied his lawful benefits, promising that the proposed minimum wage of N30,000 would be […]

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, says N30,000 as national minimum wage is not enough to sustain Nigerian families. Dogara said this during the house of representatives public hearing on the new minimum wage organised in Abuja on Monday. President Muhammadu Buhari had transmitted the bill to the national assembly after its approval […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the new national minimum wage bill of N27,000 for state government workers and the private sector and N30,000 for the federal workers. The Triangle News had reported that the National Council of State on Tuesday, approved the new minimum wage and mandated the President to forward executive bill to the […]

  The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the N27,000 new national minimum wage adopted by the National Council of States on Tuesday. The NLC Secretary-General, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. According to him, the council has no jurisdiction determining another amount after a Tripartite Committee had submitted its […]

The national council of state has approved N27, 000 as the new minimum wage. The council gave the approval at its first meeting of the year on Tuesday. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said the federal government will increase the approved amount to 30,000 for workers in the federal civil service. The minister […]

Plans by the FG and the Organised Labour to come to terms over the new minimum wage has again encountered another debacle. Sources at the National Assembly told PUNCH on Sunday that the legislature plans to go on another recess ahead of the presentation of an executive bill on a new minimum wage by the […]

Governor Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa State on Wednesday promised to pay N30,000 minimum wage to workers if the National Minimum Wage Bill is passed into law. Bindow spoke in Yola when he addressed members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, who were on a protest march to press for payment of the new minimum wage. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday appointed Bismark Rewane as the head of the advisory technical committee on the proposed N30,000 new minimum wage. The President made the appointment during the inauguration of the committee meant to advise the Federal government on new source funds and ways to implement the proposed new minimum wage in a […]