Minimum Wage : Chris Ngige Issues Statement

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chief Chris Ngige, has spoken up about the increased minimum wage agitation by various labour unions.

Ngige also said that the issue of minimum wage for workers was in the Exclusive List adding that the NLC, the TUC and the Council of Ministers would soon meet to empanel a committee that would look into the memoranda that had been received on the issue.

He stated this during a Town Hall Meeting held for political, religious, judicial and faith-based groups at the Nike-Lake Resort Hotel, Enugu.

Meanwhile, the 15-man committee inaugurated by the Federal Government on the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers has started its sitting.

The 15-man committee will review the Federal Government’s liberalisation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, leading to the new fuel pump price of N145 per litre.

The current national minimum wage law which prescribed N18, 000 was enacted in 2011.