Minimum wage

The living condition of workers in the last seven years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is bedeviled by economic hardship occasioned by many anti-people policies of the government. Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja, the General Secretary…

The Federal government yesterday said it would spend about N34 billion on the ongoing payment of minimum wage consequential adjustments to education sector workers with effect from 2019. The beneficiaries include the members of the…

The Kogi State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Onuh Edoka has called on the government to come back to the negotiation table with workers to resolve the lingering non-implementation of the consequential adjusted…

Organised labour in Kwara State on Monday said that workers in both state public service and local government areas of the state will commence an indefinite strike action over non-payment of N30,000 minimum wage by the state government on…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the economic assertions in President Muhammadu Buhari’s independence anniversary speech as a huge slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians, noting the illogicality in the comparison of…

The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has called on the National Incomes, Salaries and Wages Commission  (NISWC) to urgently forward the recommendation of the Technical Committee on Pension review in line with the last consequential…

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Enugu State Wing, says primary school teachers in the state will embark on strike if the state government fails to pay them the new minimum wage before school resumption. The Chairman of the NUT,…

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has said that he is yet to sign minimum wage deal with labour union because he was not convinced that the local government councils can afford the table that the negotiation panel has proposed. Speaking…

Having reached an agreement for the payment of N30,000 as the new minimum wage for civil servants in Gombe State, it has been agreed that February 2020 salaries will capture adjustments, as implementation takes effect from January 1, 2020.…

The Ogun State Government has agreed to pay N30,500 as new minimum wage for workers in the state with effect January 1, 2020. The government and the Organised Labour in the State reached the agreement on Tuesday night, putting an end to…