Govs: N30,000 Minimum Wage is Settled But Consequential Adjustments Will be Based on States’ Ability to Pay

Governors of the 36 states ended their meeting Wednesday night stating that there would be no controversy on the payment of the N30,000 minimum wage, but insisted that payment would depend on each state ability to pay as all fingers are not equal.

Briefing newsmen Wednesday night, the chairman of the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum, who is also the governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, said that even the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is aware of the level of preparedness of states to pay, adding if NLC is in doubt it should ask.

He said, “Governors have all indicated interest to pay without any equivocation as we subscribe to the Act of Parliament that has been passed on the N30,000 minimum wage.

“There is no debate, we have accepted that. The negotiation team you are talking about is about the consequential impact and each state has started that process. If the NLC is not fully aware of the status of the negotiations in the various state we will be happy to share the information with them.

“But as far as we are concerned, no opportunity or decision in the NGF to back tracking from the minimum wage. However, fingers are not equal, states have to negotiate in term of the consequential implementation, there may be states that are in a position to pay N50,000. What we can tell you is that no state we pay less than N30,000 when we finally get to that point,” the chairman of the governors forum stated. .

On the $30bn borrowing plan, the chairman of the forum said that it’s a federal government’s decision and a federation borrowing, as such, that the governors had little to contribute in the loan request controversy.

He said, “The borrowing plan is the federal government affairs; it is not the federation borrowing plan. It is really a matter between the federal government and the National Assembly. It is not something we want to put ourselves in between. We don’t want to comment on that”.

Commenting on the outcome of the governors meeting with the conference of States Houses of Assembly Speakers, Governor Fayemi said, “The meeting with the conference of speakers is not about an individual state. It was on general constitutional matters and we have very fruitful deliberation on that”.

On other issues discussed at the meeting, he said that the forum received an update from the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) and the World Bank team on the State Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) on the Independent Verification Assessment (IVA) exercise conducted across states.

The Independent Verification Assessment (IVA) team, he said, highlighted among others, activities of the FY2018 Annual Appraisal Assessment to be concluded in January 2020 while the transfer of 2018 grants to States will take place in March 2020.

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I am tired of this zoo

30k in 2020? May God have mercy


Money that is not even enough to take your girlfriend to the Cinema, eat after watching movie and buy condom on your way back home

Adjustment indeed..


Na small small LIES go dey enter


Money wey no go reach person do something,grammar go join am again...when the bill was passed,was it passed on adjustment


APC government!!!

Nigeria my country ��

Why bother about states when federal Is yet to implement it


Scam government

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studio14:
I am tired of this zoo

You are tired of which zoo? You go die here.. Ni visa for you even to enter Mali.

These people are just not serious. They are still in the planning mode after how many months of promises. At the end of the day nothing good will still happen. I don't really take them serious at all. We are in perilous time.

But very bad words in English language

I am tired of this minimum wage of a thing, it ain't funny anymore

Pathological liars

Upward or downward adjustment..

Lol, scammers

Make God just destroy dis country nake we start again

See ojoro. Buhari is the causer of all this nonsense

GIDIBANKZ:
Make God just destroy dis country nake we start again

no be me and you go come back to start am again, I would rather remain dead than to come back to Nigeria again

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OSUigboFlatHead:

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The issue with Nigeria is that most are pessimistic especially the lazy youth in nairaland also criticizing the government
It's as if the government can't do anything Good
Leadership is a complicated issue
#wiseuP

and this is Nigeria

iCauseTrouble:
30k in 2020? May God have mercy


Money that is not even enough to take your girlfriend to the Cinema, eat after watching movie and buy condom on your way back home

so you too don get girlfriend and you don dey buy condoms abi?

Adjustments will be based upon states huh?

Then they haven't solved the minimum wage problem then.

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Are they gonna pay with minimum wage and arrears.

chrisifeanyi:
Please can someone remind Federal government to pay salary biko. We need it before Christmas mbok

Rgade:

Upward or downward adjustment..

Nobody is going to adjust it upwards

Okay let's see how it turns out
Hope this won't be another future continuous tense