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N30,000 MINIMUM WAGE: Governors keep mum as meeting with Buhari ends in deadlock

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N30,000 MINIMUM WAGE: Governors keep mum as meeting with Buhari ends in deadlock

The Monday meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the representatives of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) ended without achieving a definite result.

Buhari had met with NGF representatives to resolve the controversy surrounding the N30,000 proposed Minimum Wage by the Tripartite Committee.

Signs that there were no clear resolutions in sight on the matter emerged as governors refused to talk to State House correspondents.

Reports say that the governors may have stuck to their guns by insisting that the highest they can pay as new minimum wage is N22,500.

Meanwhile, speculations are that the governors might concede to pay N24,000, a figure the Federal Government had since proposed, and was rejected by organised labour.

Labour has vowed not to accept any amount less than N300,000 as recommended in the report Ama Pepple-led Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage submitted to President Buhari.

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Aside NGF chairman and governor of Zamfara State, Abdulazeez Yari, who led the delegates, other governors at the meeting include Lagos state governor, Akinwumi Ambode; Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and that of Kebbi state, Atiku Bagudu as well as the minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.

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