Ladyhippolyta88:
The federal government the state government headed by the state governors are wicked.

You receive good salaries and allowances for being a public office holder and would not serve your country for up to 35 years like an average Nigerian worker yet your allowances alone can feed a generation.
Nigerian governors are clueless instead of them to develop their IGR they wait for federal allocation and security vote to use to pay salaries and squander money.
Labour should go on strike these public office holders should reduce their salaries and allowances so that more money can be used to pay workers

Maybe it's true government can't afford the minimum wage, but like they say, if it's not important to them there will always be an excuse for it, but if it's important to them they will find all means necessary to make it happen.

Accepting to pay the new minimum wage will mean government will have to work harder, here lies the problem, no one came to work hard, they came to feed fat.

Chibuokemlevi3:
As I speak to you nkpolu junction along east west road is blocked

it's blocked because the indigenes sold land that water used to pass through naturally diverting the water to a federal road which has led to the destruction of that road.

Port Harcourt people that always refuse to re bag their waste, the whole place is dirty and an eyesore.

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The workers unions accuse the government of going back on a N30,000 decision reached at a tripartite meeting between labour, government, and private employers.

However, the federal government says no agreement was reached at the tripartite meeting and insists on a N24,000 minimum wage, while the state governors say they would only be able to pay N22,500.

Cc Richiepolymer, Ndachee

I though you guys said the federal government was ready to pay N30,000 .

luizkyworld:
A little Matths: as at 2015, the minimum wage was 18k, & dollar exchange was average N180. That means Nigerians were receiving $100 as minimum wage. Fast forward to 2018, de minimum wage is still 18k, & de exchange rate is N360 average. That means, Nigerians are receiving $50 as minimum wage. Going by de calculation, de minimum wage should be N36k+ periodic variation of at least 20%. That is de total minimum wage should be N43200. Our govt is a fraud!

Decent analysis, but you missed out balancing these figures out with the price of oil at these two period and how difficult it has been for a lot of State Governments to pay the current minimum wage, with the Federal Governmental even needing to bail some states out for this reason.

That being said, if the masses are going to suffer, let's all suffer. The allowance of our Federal Legislators at least needs serious review; the current way things are is unfair.

If they cut down government officials' spending and salaries by 50%, workers will not demand for 30,000 minimum wage. The $500,000 bubu gave Guinea Busau will go a long way in our present situation as a nation!

Ngige is =confusion.

kingthreat:


The government tried to stop that but the evil senators kicked against it

very true. so the best thing u can do is to support the government by claiming they cannot afford it forgetting that the government and senators are all the same...

just watch what will happen next year, govt will increase salaries of legislators, just that this time it will be secret, if these thieves have the decency to slash their pay by 50% and invest their loot in the local economy and live modestly nobody will be clamouring for wage increase.

if our so called pastors and religious leaders reprimand them for their bad ways on Sundays ,this issue would be averted.

but alas, everyone has chosen to let them be, so we shouldn't complain.

If only few known celebrities/famous people like tuface, dbanj, RMD n co will match with the labour unions. It might cause the masses to arise on a nationwide protest.
But This is Nigeria.

Any state governor dat is finding it difficult to pay 18k should resign...

That's wickedness, but you can go abroad for medical treatment, send your wife nd children abroad, buy all kinds of cars for your girlfriends.... Smh

Everybody is pointing fingers at the FG..........
Our thinking as a nation and populace still baffles me......
This same NLC will come out to castigate the FG but cannot do same to states via their respective chapters.
What has NLC done to governors of those states who have not even paid the #18k minimum wage and even keeping up to the payments of workers salaries?
Instead of them to start the fight from the states, they prefer to move to the center and I wonder to whose benefits on the long run?
What's the population of FG civil servants compared to that of the entire states of the federation and if one is to add local government councils?
All these back ward ways of thinking will not take us in the right direction.

Foolish govt and scammer, imagine telling workers 30000 will cause inflation, senator receiveing 15m a month doesn't cause inflation ,with the govs with there security votes doesn't cause inflation

A government that can not pay minimum wage wants to increase school fees for federal universities?

They don't think that increase in school fees would affect interest rate as well

kingthreat:
You all should stop being sentimental. If minimum wage increases, all other wages too increase. Those earning 100k before will earn like 120k. This government that is presently borrowing to meet up to expenses, you want to stress above its limits?
For those criticizing me, how much do you pay your maids, cooks and domestic workers. Thats if you have one.

Dont mind them. Even my friend owing his staff 3month salary is also talking. Nonsense

We the prospective corper-shaun members say 30k or nothing. We will resist it. FG we cannot take this.

Shut down this fuccking country and disgrace the beast in aso rock and his anti-masses governors. Our leaders wickedness don do abeg.

APC never intended to honour any promise. The option available is clear VOTE APC OUT and let's have our peace. Their tenure is blood soaked.

Executive reduce NASS budget so that people like you will call it "winch hunting"?

donvicky2007:
They aren't serious. #30000 or nothing, reduce the bogus NASS budgets, reduce the bogus Aso Rock budgets and reduce budget padding and padding of contracts execution fee then paying 30k as minimum wage shouldn't be a problem.

We are solely behind labor Aluta continua

donvicky2007:
They aren't serious. #30000 or nothing, reduce the bogus NASS budgets, reduce the bogus Aso Rock budgets and reduce budget padding and padding of contracts execution fee then paying 30k as minimum wage shouldn't be a problem.

Gbam

Omololu001:
But senators and rep members fit earn more than 20 million naira as salary every month, foolish people.

Oga. Do your basic math and wax it with facts not blind sentiments so you can be a viable citizen. There are 1.5 million federal civil servants and there are 450 federal representatives. At 18,000 minimum wage the monthly wage bill if all civil servants earned this is about 27 billion. If this was paid to the reps that will amount to 60 million per rep as basic salary monthly which is completely out the ball park. Mind you I am refering to minimum wage and basic pay.

When you add all the benefits civil servants earn and the mean wage of the entire civil service which may be around 30,000 to 40,000 then factor it by 66 percent being asked for the annual basic wage bill of the federal civil service may rise to nearly 1 trillion naira.

Is that not a worrying level of allocation. What is the benefit in all these to yhe average Nigeria please. I mean the 95 percentile.

OneSentence:

very true. so the best thing u can do is to support the government by claiming they cannot afford it forgetting that the government and senators are all the same...

I'm just for cutting of unnecessary costs

pryme:


That's not it, most private workers in Nigeria are paid below minimum wage.
Go to Lagos, we have N10k jobs all over the place, that's less than the current minimum wage.
How ever I don't think it's the 30k that's the issue here, I think it's about the top government officials, 30k is almost a 100% increase from the present minimum wage, that means level 15 officers that were receiving something like 200k a month will be going home with close to 400k. I think this is where the issue lies.
Not the 30k.

Exactly @ bolded

maina55:
Another APC,, But Buhari just gave another country $500,000 to support their election,,, why not think before you write,,yet you said people are been sentimental here,,, I wonder how people think at times,,,

Nigeria has always had a major role to play in West Africa. During the Sierra Leonean and Liberian wars, do you know how much we spent?

That is why Nigerians youth will remain lazy bcoz money, dsame people for fight, kill, burn house, risk life for to come to office are denying us our benefits..... May God open d eyes of d youths.......
Sai baba till 2023

AGNESikpuNNU:

Nobody has even criticized you ... or you already know you typed trash.

Answer his question first.

How much do you pay your domestic help, sales girls, drivers?

Most people criticizing the negotiations are fond of owing labourers they engage for menial jobs.

kingthreat:
You all should stop being sentimental. If minimum wage increases, all other wages too increase. Those earning 100k before will earn like 120k. This government that is presently borrowing to meet up to expenses, you want to stress above its limits?
For those criticizing me, how much do you pay your maids, cooks and domestic workers. Thats if you have one.

Are you aware that Nigerian Senators are the highest paid in d world?

what can a married man with children use 100k to do in a month.

besides government can hold labourer salaries for like 2 months so what do expect them to feed with.

But the senator's are collecting big salary and is only God can judge

somehow:
Executive reduce NASS budget so that people like you will call it "winch hunting"?

NASS are part of government abi?
So the NASS should reduce their budget, if there is no citizen who will the people at the National Assembly represent?

harjibolar10:
All they are asking for is that N155b for recurrent to be REDISTRIBUTED... They are virtually not asking for more borrowing

If it is redistributed then some will have theirs reduced.

es144000:
If it is redistributed then some will have theirs reduced.

Like the Senators and all those political offices holders