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    Politics Nigeria: FG Announces Plan to Increase Workers Salary

    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...
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    Metro Nigeria: New Report Emerges About N56,000 Minimum Wage

    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...
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    Politics States Should Decide What to Pay as Minimum Wages – Oyegun

    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...
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    Metro Elected public officer should Not Earn 10 Times More than Minimum Wage’ – Aribisala Insists

    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...
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    Metro N56, 000 Minimum Wage: No Special Consideration for Debtor States – NLC, TUC

    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...
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    Politics 18,000 is a Starvation Wage – Falana

    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...
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    Politics Oshiomhole Responds To NLC's N56,000 Minimum Wage Proposal

    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...
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    Metro NLC, TUC Propose New Minimum Wage to FG

    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...
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    Metro NLC Set To Present N48,000 As New Minimum Wage - Aremu

    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...
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    Politics Minimum Wage: Dogs In Government Houses Cost More Than N18k Monthly To Maintain - Ben Bruce Reacts

    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...
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    Politics Oshiomhole Blasts Governors: You Must Continue To Pay N18,000 Minimum Wage

    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...
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