The organised labour has again insisted it will not back down on its demand for a N250,000 national minimum wa
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President of Nigeria Labour Congress , Joe Ajaero, however, berated the governors, yesterday, saying: “How can any governor say he cannot pay? They cannot also be calling for the decentralisation of the minimum wage. Are their wages decentralised? Governors whose states are not contributing a dime to the national purse and who generate pitiable Internally Generated Revenue are collecting the same amount as governors whose states are generating billions of dollars into the federation account.
“We have never contemplated N100,000, let alone N62,000. We are still at N250,000. That is where we are, and that is what we considered enough concession to the government and the other social partners in this particular situation. We are not just driven by frivolities but the realities of the marketplace, realities of things we buy every day: a bag of rice, yam, garri, and all of that.”
He said a formal presentation of the report will be made to President Bola Tinubu for appropriate action, when the leadership of the organised labour as well as representatives of government and the organised private sector, who are currently in Geneva, Switzerland for the ongoing International Labour Organisation Conference, return to the country.
He maintained that the submission of N62,000 proposed by the government does not translate to labour accepting the figure as a new minimum wage. The presidential spokesman said the burden would be worse on Nigeria’s 36 states whose governors have repeatedly argued against N60,000. According to him, the sub-nationals are saying, ‘We don’t have the money.”
ALGON blamed its inability on meagre allocation from the federation account and other responsibilities.National President, Aminu Muazu-Maifata, disclosed this to reporters in Lafia, Nasarawa State, yesterday. Meanwhile, figures have shown that labour’s demand for a new national minimum wage has come at a time when state governors received more federal allocations than they did a year ago.
Governors from the southeast had been collecting N303.59 from the FAAC but are now N376.98 billion richer at N680.57 billion. The Ogun State government has announced an extension for the sale of subsidised rice to pensioners in the state. This was made known by the Head of Service , Kehinde Onasanya Onasanya, while monitoring the sales of discounted rice to members of the Local Government Pensioners Association of Nigeria at its secretariat in Ita…
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