The Senate on Tuesday appointed
Senate Deputy Majority Whip, Sen. Francis Alimikhena, as Acting Chairman of the
Adhoc 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 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 to be able to catch up with
the House of Representatives which had already passed the bill through third
reading.
The Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu, had on Jan. 24, appointed the Chief Whip of the Senate, Olusola
Adeyeye, as Chairman of an eight-member ad-hoc committee mandated to work on
the minimum wage bill.
The members of the adhoc
committee are: Sen. Abu Ibrahim(APC-Katsina State); Sen. Shehu Sani(PRP-Kaduna
State) and Sen. Sam Egwu(PDP-Ebonyi).
Others are: Sen. Suleiman
Adokwe(PDP-Nasarawa State); Sen. Francis Alimikhena(APC-Edo); Sen. Solomon
Adeola(APC-Lagos State) and Binta Garba(APC-Adamawa).
The House of Representatives had
on Jan. 29 approved N30,000 as minimum wage for workers in the public and
private sectors.
The lower chamber increased the
threshold for public and private sectors workers in states and local
governments from N27,000 as proposed in the National Minimum Wage Act Amendment
Bill to N30,000.
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