LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activities, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted the claim by Nigeria Governors Forum of not being able to pay N60,000 minimum wage. He recommend that state governments that cannot sustain the N60,000.00 .00 minimum wage should be merged with other capable states because it is absolutely wrong…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has rejected the N60,000 minimum wage proposed by the Federal Government. This contradicts the federal government’s commitment to a minimum wage exceeding N60,000. According to the governors, N60,000 as minimum wage is not sustainable and can not fly. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency on Thursday denied reports that the Federal Government was proposing N105,000 as the new minimum wage. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, described the report as false. The report followed the presentation of the cost implications of implementing a new national minimum wage to…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has walked out of the ongoing minimum wage negotiations after the government and the Organised Private Sector made what the unionists described as “ridiculous offers” of N48,000 and N54,000, respectively. According to a source who is a leader of the…
