President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with
representatives of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) over the
disagreement between the organised labour and state governors on the
proposed N30,000 minimum wage.
According to NAN, the representatives of the Governors’ forum, who
met with the president over the issue, included Governors of Zamfara,
Lagos, Kaduna and Enugu, while the Minister of Labour and Employment,
Chris Ngige was also in attendance.
DAILY POST had reported that the Tripartite Committee on the Review
of the National Minimum Wage, had on Nov 6, submitted its report to
President Buhari where it recommended N30,000 as the new national
minimum wage.
While receiving the report, the president expressed his commitment to
ensuring the implementation of a new national minimum wage and pledged
to transmit an Executive bill (on National Minimum Wage) to the National
Assembly for its passage within the shortest possible time.
Buhari said that the Federal Government would soon transmit an
Executive bill (on National Minimum Wage) to the National Assembly for
its passage within the shortest possible time.
However, the 36 state governors had expressed reservations over the
proposed N30,000 new minimum wage by the Amal Pepple committee, saying
the state governments were not in a stable financial position to pay the
new minimum wage.