Is President Buhari Ready To Increase The Minimum Wage? Read What NLC Is Saying

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday dismissed as
misleading, speculations that talks between it and the Federal
Government on new national minimum wage had collapsed.
Comrade Ayuba Wabba, President of the NLC said in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, that
the talks had not even started.
According to him, the government is foot dragging on the issue.
He said that the tripartite structure that should consider the
modalities for the implementation had not been inaugurated.
According to him, apart from the Minister of Labour Chris Ngige
and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation –
Babachir Lawal that were at the meeting key ministries were
absent.
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“Uptil now, government is still dragging its feet
on talks about the minimum wage; the
tripartite structure has not been put in place.
”He said that the speculation that talk on
minimum wage had collapsed was misleading,
adding that the talk had not even started.
“The point we are making is that we have only
agreed on the structure, but the structure has
not been formed.
“We have agreed on the membership and the
structure of the negotiating team which is
going to be tripartite, so this is the point that
we are now.
“But at the last meeting of the tripartite team
which was held a day after the Sallah break, it
was agreed that at the next meeting, all these
issues will be sorted out.
“What happened was that government could not
form a quorum at the last meeting of the
palliative,” Wabba added.

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