Buhari Forwards New Minimum Wage Bill To NASS [Update]

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally forwarded a proposed New National Minimum Wage of N27,000 to the National Assembly.

Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, confirmed this when he read Buhari’s letter on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.

Mr. Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly affairs, confirmed that the bill was transmitted to the parliament on Wednesday.

Details of the content of the bill are yet to be made available though.

The national council of state had approved the sum of N27,000, while the federal government said it would increase to N30,000 for its workers.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), however, rejected the N27,000 new minimum wage following its adoption and vowed to fight the Federal  government at the National Assembly when the Bill gets there.

Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC general secretary, said the council has no jurisdiction determining another amount after a tripartite committee has submitted its report.

“It is abysmal of government to be delaying the submission of an Executive Bill to the National Assembly and by wrongfully adopting N27,000 through the council of states,” he said.

Ozo-Eson, however, said the NLC has called for an emergency national executive council meeting for Friday to weigh on the deadline given to government within which to submit an executive bill to the national assembly.

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