BREAKING: National Council Of State Approves N27,000 As New Minimum Wage

The council approved the amount at its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

Following the Council’s approval, a minimum wage bill is expected to be sent to the National Assembly on Wednesday.

According to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, the Federal Government is topping the approved amount by N3,000 to 30,000 for its workers.

He said the states are at liberty to augment the new agreement as they see fit.

The amount approved by the Council of State is N3,000 short of the N30,000 that the Tripartite Committee on Review of National Minimum Wage recommended.

The committee, chaired by a former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms Ama Pepple, had submitted the report, which contained the recommended figure, to President Muhammadu Buhari on November 6, 2018, after many months of deliberations.

Prior to the committee’s recommendation, in October, state governors had offered to pay N22,500 as minimum wage.

Nine days after the committee recommended N30,000, on November 15, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum insisted that the states cannot pay the amount, leading to criticism by organised Labour which insisted on N30,000.

On January 8, 2019, the Nigeria Labour Congress held a nationwide protest over what it said was the delay by the Federal Government to transmit a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.


https://www.channelstv.com/2019/01/22/breaking-national-council-of-state-approves-n27000-as-new-minimum-wage/

Wow. That means corps members will now be paid ₦33,000. Quite a big leap from the meagre ₦19.8k.

Osasnidas:
please sir. How did you arrive at the 33k?..

The present minimum wage is ₦18k and "corpers" were receiving ₦19.8k; that's 110% of ₦18k. So 110% of the incoming ₦30k gives ₦33k.

Ok

Jolly good news!

after much arm twisting from labour

Ok

Lets work on that

Nigeria is in a bad shape right now.

That's the price Nigerians ha to pay for electing an agent of hardship as president .

Give buhari another 4 years and be sorry for your lives .

So when is the implementation?

APC government is the biggest deception ever seen.So after the constitutional recognized tripartite committee have arrived @ a minimum wage of 30k the goverment thereafter set up this useless committee to arrive @ this?
How much is Buhari feeding budget in Aso Rock again? How much does he takes to barb his bald head?
Yusuf Buhari crashed a #55M power bike right? Lawal Babachir stole #240M yet a free man today right?

Governors are living @ the expense of State workers. Receiving security votes they only keep on embezzling. Yet all of them can't pay a paltry 30k minimum wage?

With rising inflation and cost of living? Labour and Nigerian workers have entered one-chance

nonsense !!!! before you start celebrating know that this is only further proof of how Buhari govt has taken Nigerians back .. 18000 thousand minimum wage was 113 dollars just four years ago and today the new Buhari minimum wage is equivalent to 73 dollars a month meaning Nigerians were better off under GEJ !!!!! Buharis govt can only reduce your worth no matter how you see it

Shey NLC say na 30k or nufin?? we dey watch!

Ok

SalamRushdie:
nonsense !!!! before you start celebrating know that this is only further proof of how Buhari govt has taken Nigerians back .. 18000 thousand minimum wage was 113 dollars just four years ago.

Today the new Buhari minimum wage is equivalent to 73 dollars a month meaning Nigerians were better off under GEJ !!!!! Buharis govt can only reduce your worth no matter how you see it

My brother if only Nigerians understand the tyrannic bondage they are into with this satanic government.

This news still wouldn't change my mind on voting Buhari out of Power.

Daviddson:
Wow. That means corps members will now be paid ₦33,000. Quite a big leap from the meagre ₦19.8k

Stop celebrating poverty.


Minimum wage in South Africa is #125k in naira .

Nigerians deceive more than 27k

@ least is Still manageable. Implementation stage is d next tin.

Any state governor dat can't pay dis should be voted out.

I think this is realistic, no more I can't pay 30,000 naira again by state governors.

After initial gra gra na 27000 them keep am

Still very low

Gennygolden:
BREAKING: National Council Of State Approves N27,000 As New Minimum Wage

The council approved the amount at its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

Following the Council’s approval, a minimum wage bill is expected to be sent to the National Assembly on Wednesday.

According to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, the Federal Government is topping the approved amount by N3,000 to 30,000 for its workers.

He said the states are at liberty to augment the new agreement as they see fit.

The amount approved by the Council of State is N3,000 short of the N30,000 that the Tripartite Committee on Review of National Minimum Wage recommended.

The committee, chaired by a former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms Ama Pepple, had submitted the report, which contained the recommended figure, to President Muhammadu Buhari on November 6, 2018, after many months of deliberations.

Prior to the committee’s recommendation, in October, state governors had offered to pay N22,500 as minimum wage.

Nine days after the committee recommended N30,000, on November 15, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum insisted that the states cannot pay the amount, leading to criticism by organised Labour which insisted on N30,000.

On January 8, 2019, the Nigeria Labour Congress held a nationwide protest over what it said was the delay by the Federal Government to transmit a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.


https://www.channelstv.com/2019/01/22/breaking-national-council-of-state-approves-n27000-as-new-minimum-wage/

Thank God.. we can all enjoy rise in pay

Really

chai! nigerian workers don suffeeer!

This might be good news for the workers but have we as a nation thought of were the money for the wages is going to come from?

Is the government going to downsize the workforce or would the money come from what was borrowed for capital projects?

TIGRITIS:
So when is the implementation?

It is a bill, now it will be sent to National Assembly. As soon as National Assembly approves it, it will be implemented immediately

if NLC accept this greek gift, then i know they have been bribed

TIGRITIS:
So when is the implementation?

As soon as it is approved by National Assembly. The Government will send it to National Assembly as a bill. so it will be implemented the month, the National Assembly approves it

SalamRushdie:
nonsense !!!! before you start celebrating know that this is only further proof of how Buhari govt has taken Nigerians back .. 18000 thousand minimum wage was 113 dollars just four years ago and today the new Buhari minimum wage is equivalent to 73 dollars a month meaning Nigerians were better off under GEJ !!!!! Buharis govt can only reduce your worth no matter how you see it

Wailing wailer

Afamed:

As soon as it is approved by National Assembly. The Government will send it to National Assembly as a bill. so it will be implemented the month, the National Assembly approves it

Okay, thanks.
But make baba send the bill sharp sharp to nass abeg so dat, anyhow anyhow, we fit expect something by Feb.

TIGRITIS:

Okay, thanks.
But make baba send the bill sharp sharp to nass abeg so dat, anyhow anyhow, we fit expect something by Feb.

I think he has promised already to send it to National Assembly this week.

Today after the National council of state meeting at the state house

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SalamRushdie:
nonsense !!!! before you start celebrating know that this is only further proof of how Buhari govt has taken Nigerians back .. 18000 thousand minimum wage was 113 dollars just four years ago and today the new Buhari minimum wage is equivalent to 73 dollars a month meaning Nigerians were better off under GEJ !!!!! Buharis govt can only reduce your worth no matter how you see it

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Stop wasting your tears now because you will need a lot of it from 16 Feb 2019 to 29 May 2023.

Afamed:

I think he has promised already to send it to National Assembly this week.

Very good.

Slave wages