Minimum wage: Governors take final decision Tuesday
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the labour movement had earlier on sept. 26 embarked on a warning strike which was suspended on sept. 301 the nigerian governors forum ngf is to hold an emergency meeting on oct. 30 to discuss the national minimum wage and come up with a position gov. abdulaziz yari of zamfara has said1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that organised labour has been at odds with the federal government over demands to increase the remunerations of public sector workers1 nigerian public sector workers are classified as earning some of the lowest wages in the world although political office holders in the country including the nations bicameral legislature earn some of the highest wages in the world1 on oct. 24 the nigeria labour congress nlc issued another strike notice over a stalemate arising from the federal governments inability to accept the n30000 minimum wage demanded by labour1 a communique issued at the end of its emergency meeting and signed by the nlc president mr ayuba wabba and the general-secretary mr peter ozo-eson directed labour to commence an indefinite nationwide strike from nov.61 yari spoke with state house correspondents on the matter after an expanded economic management team meeting at the presidential villa on monday in abuja1 yari said the position of the governors is not very clear to some of you that we are willing to pay the amount but the issue is the capacity the muscle to pay1 we discussed that government has some numbers and eventually the committee has given some proposals but the governors have not come out with any amount1 so tomorrow we are going to discuss with governors and say look at what labour is sending1 look at the bill that was directed by the minister of labour and employment to be sent to the ngfs secretariat so that we can digest the content of the bill discuss it and come up with our position as governors because we are critical partners on this yari said1 the minister of labour and employment dr chris ngige announced recently that the federal government proposed n24 000 while the state governors proposed n20 0001