Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja The Presidency has described reports that President Muhammadu Buhari reneged on earlier acceptance of the N30,000 recommended as the new national minimum wage by the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee as unnecessary. READ ALSO: State of states and minimum wage In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and […]
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New minimum wage: Buhari’ll decide after studying recommendation – FG
Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja The Federal Government yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari would soon review the minimum wage tripartite committee report and make his decision known. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, […]
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Governors’ forum insists N30,000 minimum wage not affordable
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has insisted that state governors cannot afford to pay the N30,000 minimum wage demanded by the labour unions. “There is no way states will abide by N30,000 minimum wage just because the president said so,” NGF spokesman Abdulrazaqe Bello-Barkindo said on Channels Television’s Sunrise daily. The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states […] …
New minimum wage is N30,000
Organised Labour and the Organised Private Sector had maintained that N30,000 was the amount recommended as new minimum wage at the committee’s last meeting Bimbola Oyesola, Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan, Godwin Tsa, Abuja After a long drawn and heated meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage, the Federal Government finally bowed to the Organised Labour […]
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Minimum wage: We can’t pay N24,000 – Gov
While Labour unions were demanding N30,000 per month, Federal Government proposed N24,000 and state governors N20,000 Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja Industrial crisis appears imminent as governors have announced that they would not be able to afford the agreed national minimum wage. Governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), who met on Wednesday night in Abuja, said […]
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FG attracts $10.5bn PPP investments
Uche Usim, Abuja The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has disclosed that the country has attracted $10.5 billion worth of Public-Private-Partnership investments into the country since 2000, going by available World Bank records. This was as the body signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Acting Director General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Chidi […]
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IGR: NGF to introduce dashboard to boost revenue
NGF hosts states tax officers
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Monday hosted tax officers from the 36 states of the federation in Abuja. The meeting was to introduce them to the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) dashboard, which is an innovation of the Economic department of the NGF. At the occasion, the NGF Director General, Mr Okauru, charged the desk officers not to seeRead More
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Ekiti: NGF will miss Fayose’s contributions
THE Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said that it would miss the invaluable contributions at its meetings of the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, who will soon complete his tenure. The Forum also congratulated […]
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