14 June 2024 - Nigeria's government faces resistance over new minimum wage
Minimum wage: We’ll pay what we can afford — Tinubu
Johnbosco Agbakwuru (Vanguard, 14/06/2024)
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday night said that he would approve what is affordable as the new minimum wage, alerting the National Assembly to expect his memorandum on the final settlement.
Don’t send new minimum wage to NASS without consulting us – Labour warns Tinubu
Ifreke Inyang (Daily Post Nigeria, 14/06/2024)
Organized Labour have told President Bola Tinubu not to submit any figure for the new minimum wage to the National Assembly without consulting them.
FACT-CHECK: Have the 36 states offered minimum wages as claimed by X user?
(Ripples Nigeria, 12/06/2024)
An X user, @DeeOneAyekooto, recently posted the amount each of the 36 states in Nigeria offered as minimum wage.
The claim has amassed thousands of engagements on X and was also reported by an online newspaper.
Should Nigerian politicians earn N62,000?
Abimbola Adelakun (The Punch, 13/06/2024)
Each time a country goes through minimum wage negotiation, you can take it for granted that the argument to put politicians on that same salary scale will come up.
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