minimum wage

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure has said that the long awaited wage review for corps members would soon be announced. Kazaure said that the expected‎ release of report by a committee set up by federal government to review the...

The Nigerian organized labour unions have rejected a N30,000 minimum wage offer from the federal government. The House of Representatives had offered an upward review of the minimum wage for Nigerian workers to N30,000 from the current N18,000 to avoid a strike. The President of the Trade...

The Nigerian government and labour unions have reached a consensus to review the national minimum wage, NLC President Mr Ayuba Wabba has announced. “I think there is a consensus on the fact that nobody has said that the minimum wage should not be reviewed," he said in an interview on Wednesday...

The South African government has introduced a minimum wage of $260 per month for its citizens. South Africa Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday said the government will introduce a national minimum wage of 3,500 rand ($261) per month in 2018, Reuters reports. The announcement follows...

Nigeria's Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has stated that the federal government has plans to increase workers' salary next year. Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday, he said the review of the minimum wage is part of government's priority for the new year. “Minimum wage is a...

There are unconfirmed reports that the federal government has started negotiations to increase the minimum wage of Nigerian civil servants to N56,000. The federal government had agreed to open negotiations with labour unions following a strike action months ago over increment in pump price of...

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said states should be allowed to fix their minimum wage according to their financial capabilities. Oyegun said this while fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja yesterday. According to him, it was a...

No elected public officer should earn more than 10 times the minimum wage, human rights activist, Comrade Femi Aborisade, has insists. He made this known at a pre-May Day symposium, titled, “Inclusive Socio-Economic Space for Sustainable Development”, Aborisade said: “Governments that are...

Organised labour has maintained that it will not give special considerations to 26 states that are currently having difficulties paying the present wage in negotiating the new minimum wage. Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress which gave this indication on Monday, insisted...

Foremost Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has described the 19,800 minimum wage currently received by workers as a ‘starvation wage.’ Falana, said at the pre-May Day lecture held in Abuja yesterday where he was a guest speaker. The activist argue that the government is...

Former Labour leader now Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has indicated that the N56,000 which the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, proposed to the Federal Government as the new national minimum wage will not turn out to be the final amount to be agreed upon by both parties...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have jointly proposed N56, 000 as the new minimum wage to the Federal Government as against the present N18, 000. The NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja. Wabba said...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will soon propose a new minimum wage to the federal government following the decline in the value of naira, the Secretary General, Nigerian Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), Comrade Issa Aremu, has said. Aremu spoke yesterday...

The lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District , Ben Murray Bruce, has charged the thirty six governors of the country not to reduce the N18,000 minimum wage, stating that it is unjust for a government to contemplate reducing the workers pay. Bruce who took to his twitter account...

Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, disagreed with other governors of the country on the ability of the states to pay the N18,000 minimum wage, saying they must pay. Recalling that the minimum wage was agreed between the Federal Government and the organised labour by the...