Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday charged returning governors and governors-elect to explore alternative means to generate revenue to pay the newly signed N30,000 minimum wage....
With the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari to the new minimum wage of N30,000, there is no other hurdle barring or delaying state governments, ministries, departments...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned state governors against delaying the full implementation of the N30,000 new minimum wage. According to the union, workers would...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has vowed that it would ensure that the new national minimum wage is implemented to the letter. It would be recalled...
The All Progressives Congress APC has boasted that the assent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the New Minimum Wage bill passed by the National Assembly is...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed the Minimum Wage bill into law. The Re-Enactment Act, 2019 now makes minimum wage for workers in the country N30,000....
The Technical Committee on the implementation of the new minimum wage has officially handed President Muhammadu Buhari a report on how the newly increased pay will...
The approval of the new minimum wage by both chambers of the National Assembly might have stirred a new controversy as the possibility of increase in...
The report of the Technical Advisory Committee on National Minimum Wage that was inaugurated by President Mohammadu Buhari has been finalised and is ready for presentation...
President Muhammadu Buhari has pleaded with Nigerian workers to show understanding as the federal government seeks to address issues around the new minimum wage. Represented by...
The eight-man Ad-hoc Committee set up by the Senate to look into the National Minimum Wage Bill presented to it by President Muhammadu Buhari, has explained...
Members of the House of Representatives have faulted the Council of State for approving N27,000 as new minimum wage for workers in the country instead of...
About twenty four hours after receipt of the the National Minimum Wage Bill (2019) from the executive, the Bill on Thursday scaled both first and second...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent to the National Assembly for approval the proposed New National Minimum Wage of N27,000. A letter to the effect was read...
The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has said the funds generated by Federal Government through the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC),...
State governors have intensified their call for a review of the nation’s revenue-sharing formula if they must pay the proposed N30,000 new National Minimum Wage, The...
The Nigerian Governors Forum, Wednesday evening failed to reconvene its members to discuss the ongoing issues around the proposed N30,000 minimum wage. The meeting at the...
The National Economic Council will on Thursday decide on the proposed N30,000 new minimum wage. This was part of the resolutions reached at the emergency meeting...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it is awaiting the transmission of an executive bill on the new minimum wage from the Presidency to the National...
The Federal Government has asked the Technical Committee on the Implementation of a new Minimum Wage in the country to look for additional sources of revenue...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared that the Federal Government’s Advisory Committee has no relevance to the new National Minimum Wage agreement. Mr. Ayuba Wabba,...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday attacked the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for saying that there would be economic crisis in Nigeria if President Muhammadu Buhari went...
Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), says the union wrongly criticised the idea of the federal government advisory committee on minimum wage based...
Immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has asked Nigerian workers not to allow themselves be deceived by President Muhammadu Buhari with the setting...
Indications emerged in Abuja on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari might clash with governors if he presented a bill to the National Assembly, proposing N30,000 as...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday as expected, embarked on protests in some parts of the country over failure of Nigerian Government to finalise its new...
Ahead of its scheduled Monday meeting with the federal government, the Nigeria Labour Congress said the demand for N30,000 national minimum wage for workers was not...
Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has described as unacceptable, the delay in the implementation of the new national minimum wage by government. The association also...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Monday said Nigerians should not blame the union for the looming industrial chaos in January owing to what it perceived as...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed January 8 as a national day of protest to show anger over the delay in implementing the new minimum...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s suggestion during the 2019 budget presentation that there would be a review of the N30,000...
If the outcome of the Friday meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors is anything to go by, then clouds of uncertainty may continue to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with 36 state governors of the federation over the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage. According to reports, the meeting which...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday described the Federal Government’s silence on the N30,000 minimum wage proposal as provocative, stressing that it expected President Muhammadu Buhari...
THE earlier meeting between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and Labour Unions, to negotiate the new minimum wage for workers in the state was postponed...
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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...
The labour movement is worried that Nigerians may turn a cold shoulder to a fresh call for an industrial action demanding the speedy passage of a...
In an apparent move to meet up with the deadline given by organised labour over the new minimum wage, governors have schedule an emergency meeting to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said the organised labour expects President Muhammadu Buhari to submit the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly...
The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has assured Nigerians that the upper legislative chamber would ensure the speedy passage of...
There are fears that the unending negotiation between the Federal Government and organised Labour on the new minimum wage might be a deliberate ploy to deny...
If the demand for an increase in minimum wage is eventually approved by the Federal Government, over N2.31tn would be paid as salaries to the over...
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Thursday ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit a report of their negotiations...
The Presidency on Thursday insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari had at no time approved the N30,000 recommended by the tripartite committee as new minimum wage. It...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has increased minimum wage of workers in his conglomerate to N33,000 The approved amount is N3000 higher...
The denial by the Federal Government that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to approve N30,000 as new minimum wage has got Organised Labour fuming. The group...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted to implement the minimum wage of...