Buhari willing to pay enhanced minimum wage this year - Ngige
- Nigeria’s minister of labour and employment Chris Ngige said Nigerian workers would start smiling very soon over the minimum wage
- Ngige said President Buhari is desirous to give the workers an enhanced pay package in the year 2018
- He maintained that the minimum wage is a national matter and only the federal government can legislate on it
The minister of labour and employment Chris Ngige said President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in the welfare of Nigerian workers and that will enhance their salary in the year 2018.
Ngige who made this known in a chat with journalists at Ifitedunu, Dunukofia local government area of Anambra state, said a national tripartite committee set up by President Buhari on minimum wage had commenced work.
According to him, “We had our inaugural meeting on 14th December and we did a framework for our work. We will finish our job before the third quarter of this year, but we may finish earlier.
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“Minimum wage is a national matter and only the federal government can legislate on it. Labour matter and the issue of national minimum wage is in the Exclusive List.
“President Buhari is monitoring it strictly, and I am monitoring it too. I wear a double cap as minister of labour, who is the regulator and also as the deputy chairman of the committee.”
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He also said the committee would work to come out with an acceptable minimum wage, saying that the Nigerian Governors Forum, representatives of the Nigerian workers, and the Nigerian Employers Consultative Assembly make up the committee.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that there was some good news for government workers in Nigeria as the government finally put plans in motion to set up a tripartite committee to deliberate on a new minimum wage for workers in the country.
Peter Ozo-Eson, the general secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress said the FG had written them to forward a list of its representatives to the committee on minimum wage.
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