From right, Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola; Special Adviser to the President on Policy, Mr Douglas Oronto; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole and President of the Senate, Mr David Mark. Sitting is Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, during the National Economic Council meeting in Abuja, on Thursday.
NIGERIAN workers may have to wait a longer time before they would start enjoying the N18, 000 new national minimum wage announced by the Federal Government as the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, on Thursday, declared that no payment would be effected until the National Assembly approves it.
The national chairman of the commission, Chief Richard Egbule, who dropped the hint in Abuja at this year’s ministerial press briefing, explained that due process had to be followed in accordance with the constitution of the land before Nigerian workers could start enjoying the minimum wage, saying, “what we have now is mere recommendation, it has to go through three processes.”
Nigerian Tribune recalls that the Federal Government had set up a tripartite committee on the National Minimum wage, chaired by Justice Alfa Belgore, which submitted its report in July in which it recommended N18, 000 as the new national minimum wage which was immediately announced by the government.
Announcing the new minimum wage, the Federal Government stated that its implementation would be from July 1 this year.
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