Governors Meet In Abuja Over Minimum Wage, LG Autonomy, Others

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This is the first public meeting held since the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage concluded their negotiations.

Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum are holding a meeting at the forum’s secretariat in Abuja.The meeting, it was gathered, was convened on matters bordering on the new national minimum wage, local government autonomy and NGCares disbursement to states.

Talks for a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers have been on for a while. The Minimum Wage Act of 2019, which made ₦30,000 the minimum wage, expired in April 2024. The Act should be reviewed every five years to meet with contemporary economic demands of workers. However, the committee members failed to reach an agreement on a new realistic minimum wage for workers, forcing labour to declare an indefinite industrial action on Monday, June 3, 2024. Businesses were paralysed as labour shut down airports, hospitals, the national grid, banks, National Assembly, and state assemblies’ complexes.

Both the Trade Union Congress and Nigeria Labour Congress leadership subsequently resumed talks with the representatives of the Federal Government, states, and the Organised Private Sector.

 

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