Minimum Wage: NLC Rejects N22,500 Proposed By Governors, Insists On N30,000

NLC Bent On Nation Wide Strike Come November 6

The Nigerian Labour Congress, has said it is not satisfied with the N22,500 agreed upon by the Nigeria Governor’s forum as National minimum wage.

In an interview with TVC News, NLC Chairman,  Ayuba Wabba stated that the N22,500 is unrealistic in the face of the harsh economic realities on ground.

The NLC chairman added that the proposed strike planned for Tuesday, November 6th would still go on if the governors insisted on this amount.

Naija News recalls governors of the 36 states, had yesterday said that states can only afford to raise the national minimum wage from N18, 000 to N22,500 as against the N30,000 being demanded by organised labour.

The governors said this after an emergency meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum in Abuja late on Tuesday.

This was even as the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress held nationwide peaceful protests to sensitive Nigerians to the planned national strike scheduled to begin on November 6.

The two unions are demanding N30,000 as the national minimum wage.

The Federal Government had earlier offered to pay N24, 000 as minimum wage.

Labour had declared that it would order workers to go on strike from November 6, 2018, if government refused to take a decisive action on its demand.