Hope all of them can meet up with this demand?


, ACN governors meet, agree to pay N18,000 wage
From YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan
Thursday, July 07, 2011


Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governors have resolved to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

A source at the meeting of the governors of the states held in Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday disclosed that the governors resolved, after long deliberations, that being people-centred governments and labour-inclined administrations, the governors could not but pay the new minimum wage.
Hosted by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, other governors at the meeting were Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun).

The source said the decision of the governors to pay the minimum wage was hinged on the ACN governors’ belief in not running foul of the National Minimum Wage Act of 2010, which makes the payment mandatory for the states of the federation.

Furthermore, the source said the governors, after hours of discussion, agreed that since they were governors whose elections were hinged on their belief in the welfare of their teeming people, they could not but pay the minimum wage.
The governors were also said to have resolved to commence negotiations and discussions with the various labour leaders in their states on the modalities of the payment of the national minimum wage.

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Yes, it is, but hope they can keep to it, all of them may not be as bouyant as LAGOS STATE you know!

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