Minimum wage: We‘re running out of patience, Wabba tells Presidency

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, has expressed concerns over the delay by President Muhamadu Buhari to transmit an executive bill on the agreed N30, 000 Minimum wage, to the National Assembly.

DAILY NIGERIAN reports that the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee was mandated to review the current N18, 000 minimum wage and at the end of its meeting two weeks ago, the committee submitted its report to President Buhari, recommending N30, 000.00

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However, the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, bluntly declared that they can’t pay the figure presented by the committee.

Speaking at this year’s Harmattan School of the Congress holding in Abuja, Wabba said, workers were running out of patience on the delayed implementation of the new wage.

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He described as unfortunate the governors’ declaration to the effect that they lacked the capability to pay the N30,000, yet spending billions of dollars in the name of security votes which, according to him, they can’t account for.

He is looking for Xmas money as usual. NLC KOO.