By Busari Kabirat
The Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to come up with an idea on the new minimum wage.
This was made known by Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, while briefing the correspondents from the State House, following the meeting held between the negotiation team and the President at Aso Rock.
Idris said: “All parties to the negotiation of the new minimum wage would work together with the organised labour to present a new minimum wage for Nigerians in one week.
“All of us will work together assiduously within the next one week to ensure that we have a new wage for Nigeria that is acceptable, sustainable and also realistic.”
However, the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), and Trade Union Congress (TUC), have decided to put off the industrial action which started on Monday for now, to enable further negotiations between the Federal Government and the Union.
