More Trouble For Governors As NLC Demands N66,500 Minimum Wage

The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has pegged the new the lowest pay permitted by law at N66, 500, an expansion of N36,500 from the N30,000 requested by the sorted out work. 

Brief News reviews that the composed work had demanded that the new the lowest pay permitted by law must be expanded to in any event N30,000 however the Federal Government offered to pay N24,000. 

Work had announced that it would arrange specialists to go on strike from November 6, 2018, if the administration declined to make a conclusive move on its interest. 

This online news medium had announced before that the risk of the specialists was accepted to have made the initiative of the governors' discussion to gather a crisis meeting on Tuesday. 

Ascending from the gathering which was gone to by the Ministers of Labor and Productivity, Chris Ngige, and that of National Planning, Udoma, the Chairman of the NGF, who is likewise the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, said the governors can just build specialists' pay rates from N18,000 to N22,500 every month. 

Clearly disappointed with the accommodation, NLC President Ayuba Wabba assailed the Nigeria Governors' Forum for pegging the lowest pay permitted by law at N22, 500. 

Talking at a question and answer session in Abuja on Wednesday, Wabba said the NLC has now pegged the lowest pay permitted by law at N66, 500. 

The NLC President said the Nigeria Governors' Forum was not known to law and was in this way an unlawful body. 

Wabba said all governors should come back to their separate states and counsel with specialists as opposed to stow away under the umbrella of the governors' gathering.