The Nigerian Labour Congress NLC is yet to decide on a figure for the new minimum wage, dissociating itself from the proposed N500,000 salary. At the North-East zonal public hearing, Ajaero mentioned the NLC is unaware of the N500,000 and N700,000 proposed minimum salaries.
Consequently, he asserted that circulating data should be ignored, since the NLC is yet to reach a conclusion on the minimum wage. The figures that are been spoken about everywhere are just opinions from different zone, in Lagos and other locations.
However, the NLC secretariat has not provided any information; the states are the source of these minimum data. We will compile them and then create a central presentation using the raw materials that the states are providing.
The minimum wage ought to be commensurate with the cost of living in those particular states. You would concur with me that the rent in this place is not the same as it is in Lagos or Abuja. Thus, in comparison. Labour’s presentation, which resembles a straitjacket in every state. Dr. Solomon Bulus, the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in Adamawa State, stated that the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council supported the N500,000 new minimum salary because it will lessen the suffering that the country is currently facing.
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