The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said it is deliberating about the new national minimum wage.
As reported by TheCable, the governors held an emergency meeting on Wednesday night, June 26.
Leadership newspaper also noted the meeting.
The other matter on the meeting’s agenda, chaired by the forum’s chairman, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, governor of Kwara state, included the issue of local government autonomy.
According to a communiqué released after the meeting that extended into the early hours of Thursday, June 27, the governors are ready to liaise with stakeholders so that a new minimum wage figure can be arrived at as soon as possible.
The communiqué was signed by Ahmed Salihu, the NGF acting director of media.
The NGF’s communiqué partly reads:
“The forum discussed the new national minimum wage. The governors agreed to continue engaging with key stakeholders to reach a mutually agreeable solution.
“We remain dedicated to the process and assure that better wages will result from the ongoing negotiations.”
Over the past few months, the federal and state governments, organised labour, and the organised private sector (OPS) have been negotiating a new minimum wage.
The federal government had asked the labour unions to demand a more realistic and sustainable minimum wage.
TheNGblog reports that during the last meeting of the tripartite committee, the federal government and the OPS had agreed to pay N62,000 while labour reviewed its demand to N250,000.
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