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Wants Governors to Brace Up for Uniform Implementation ABUJA – President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Festus Osifo, on Tuesday, said State governments should brace up to pay whatever would be arrived at as new minimum wage as all negotiations would be rounded up by July 2024. He said organised labour expects the President to assent to the new wage onced passed by the National Assembly before the end of July 2024. According to Osifo, if assented to, it will ameliorate the harsh living conditions Nigerians were currently struggling with.
This comes as President Tinubu said he would need more time to consult on an appropriate minimum wage figure for the country. Tinubu took to deliberations at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Tuesday, to plead for more time to consult those in authorities at the states and local government councils. Osifo who made the disclosure when the Special Adviser on Labour matter to the Kogi State Governor, Onuh Edoka led a delegation to his office on Tuesday in Abuja, said there was need for the national tripartite negotiation committee made up of government, labour and organised labour, to find a common ground so that the Bill would receive prompt attention by the President as well as the National Assembly.
He said: “What we are working on from both labour centres is that before the end of July, we should have a new minimum wage that must have passed through the processes, that must have been assented to by the Pr.
