The Senate has approved the
thirty thousand Naira (N30,000) national minimum wage.
The lawmakers also approved
Seventy-five thousand naira(N75,000) as penalty for non-compliance.
This agreement was reached by the
Senate Committee on New Minimum Wage, according to Senator Shehu Sani(Kaduna
Central).
In a tweet on Thursday, the
lawmaker said, “The Senate Committee on New National Minimum wage met yesterday
and approved the new national minimum wage bill; 30k as minimum wage and 75k as
penalty for non-compliance.”
The Senate on Tuesday appointed
Senate Deputy Majority Whip, Sen. Francis Alimikhena, as acting chairman of the
ad-hoc Committee on Minimum Wage.
The President of the Senate, Dr
Bukola Saraki, who made the announcement at plenary on Tuesday, said Alimikhena
would work in an acting capacity while the Chairman, Sen. Olusola Adeyeye, was
away on health grounds.
Saraki charged the committee to
expedite action on the matter to enable the Senate catch up with the House of
Representatives which had already passed the bill.
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