Tag: minimum wage
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Minimum wage: It’s N30, 000 or strike, labour tells FG
The Federal Government said on Wednesday the N30,000 minimum wage proposal contained in the report of the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government was still a recommendation and had not been approved. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, said…
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N30,000 minimum wage: Buhari’s denial shows he can’t be trusted – Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted with the implementation of the ‘new’ minimum wage of N30, 000 recently recommended by the tripartite committee. In a statement issued by his media office, the presidential hopeful said President Buhari, who is known for…
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Presidency backtracks, says Buhari did not endorse N30,000 minimum wage
The Presidency on Tuesday said reports that President Muhammadu Buhari endorsed the N30,000 new minimum wage was misleading. It insisted that the president’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage was misinterpreted by the media. Recall that Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja received the highly…
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New minimum wage: Atiku lauds FG’s decision to pay N30,000
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, AlhajiAtiku Abubakar, has commended the Federal Government for agreeing to pay N30,000 minimum wage negotiated with labour leaders in the country. Abubakar made the commendation in a statement during his Presidential Campaign Organisation on Tuesday in Abuja. He described Nigerian workers as the “goose that lays the golden…
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BREAKING: Buhari okays N30,000 new minimum wage
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday endorsed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. He said this while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The report was submitted by the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple. Buhari has also promised to send a bill to…
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Minimum Wage: FG, Labour reach truce, figure to be released today
Labour leaders, who have called off a planned nationwide strike, have agreed a new national minimum wage at the end of negotiations with a Tripartite Committee, set up by the Federal government. The agreed figure will be kept under wraps until 4.15 pm on Tuesday, when it will be revealed in a report to be…
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Minimum Wage: NUT directs teachers to join nationwide strike
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Niger State chapter, has instructed all teachers in the state to join in the nationwide strike for increment of wages by organised labour. Addressing newsmen on Monday at the end of the State Wing Executive Council meeting at the NUT Teachers House in Minna, the state chairman, Ibrahim Umar,…
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Minimum wage: NLC dares Buhari, governors, insists on November 6 nationwide strike
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has charged its members to continue to mobilize in preparation for the commencement of an indefinite strike on the 6th of November if recommendations of the Tripartite Committee are not adopted. President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba gave the charge at a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja. Comrade Wabba reiterated…
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JUST IN: NLC rejects governors’ N22,500 minimum wage, insists on N66,500
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday rejected N22,500 adopted by governors as the minimum wage their states can pay. Recall that the 36 governors met on Tuesday and adopted N22,500 as the new minimum wage. This is despite the NLC and other labour unions insisting they had agreed with the government to accept N30,000…
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Benue will pay any amount adopted as minimum wage – Ortom assures workers
Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has promised to pay any amount agreed upon by the negotiating committee on minimum wage. Ortom stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi, when members of Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, and other sister unions visited him to register their support for the upward review of wages. The News Agency…