President Bola Tinubu on Monday signed the National Minimum Wage Bill into law, signalling the beginning of implementation of the N70,000 agreed by all stakeholders in the tripartite committee.
The President signed the bill into law at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa Abuja, witnessed by the leadership of the National Assembly, Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio , Deputy Senate President, Senator Jibrin Barau among others. The President who is presiding over a Federal Executive Council meeting had to suspend proceedings temporarily to assent to the bill.
'So I want to use this opportunity to call on those who are attempting to foment trouble; that you have a right to protest. It is your fundamental right. It is there in the Constitution. 'But you don't have a right to destabilize the country. The right to protest should not be turned into the right to unleash violence. It's very clear that people who are behind this are very amorphous, very faceless.
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