Fix Realistic Living Wage Not Minimum Wage- Reps Tell FG

The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government, to redirect the focus of its negotiation with labour, from fixing a minimum wage, to fixing a realistic living wage in line with current market realities.The Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, urged his colleagues, to speedily amend the minimum wage bill as it did with the national anthem, adding that if President Bola Tinubu refuses to accent to it, he should be overrided by the National Assembly.

A statement by the spokesperson for the Transmission Company of Nigeria , Ndidi Mbah, said operators of the national grid were forcefully kicked out and beaten by the aggrieved union members, before turning off the grid in protest.

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