Friday, June 28, 2024 - Governors from the Southern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, have proposed that each state should be allowed to determine what it can pay as a new minimum wage.
The governors made this proposal in a
16-point communique issued and also advocated that each state be allowed to
negotiate the new wage with the labour unions in their state.
“The Forum discussed the minimum wage
issues demanded by labour and unanimously agreed that the minimum wage should
be reflective of the cost of living and that each state should be allowed to
negotiate its minimum wage. This led to the forum’s discussion on fiscal
federalism and devolution of powers,” the communique read
This comes hours after a meeting of
the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, in Abuja on Thursday, June 27, where the
state governors promised to remain dedicated to the process of negotiating a
new minimum wage and assured that better wages would result from the ongoing
negotiations.
At the meeting were governors of Oyo, Zamfara, Anambra, Delta, Gombe, Kano, Imo, Kwara, Ondo, Kaduna, Kebbi, Ebonyi, Sokoto, Ogun States, among others. Deputy governors of Akwa Ibom, Osun, Borno States, and others were also at the meeting.
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