The Nigerian Labour Congress
(NLC) has declared January 8 as a day of national protest to drive home its
demand for a new minimum wage.
The resolution was reached at the
NLC national executive council meeting in Abuja, according to a statement
issued Friday by Ayuba Wabba, the union’s president.
The NLC is demanding that the
minimum wage is increased from the current N18,000 to N30,000, 60 percent less
than the South Africa national minimum wage which is at N91,225.
Both the federal and state
government are yet to agree with the demand.
While presenting the 2019 budget,
President Muhammadu Buhari said a committee will be set up to review the demand
while state governors have proposed the sum of N22,500.
The NLC president said the union
“strongly condemned” the continued delay by the federal government in
transmitting a bill of the new national minimum wage to the national assembly
for approval.
“The protest is to express anger
and total dissatisfaction over the delay by the federal government in
transmitting, enacting and implementing the new national minimum wage of
N30,000,” the statement read.
“The NEC-in-Session approved that
the protests should hold in all state capitals and the Federal Capital
Territory Abuja on January 8, 2019. The NEC mandates all industrial unions and
state councils to fully mobilise workers and coordinate with other labour
unions for this mother-of-all protest.”
Some of the meetings between the
federal government and NLC on the new minimum wage demand ended in deadlock.
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