Minimum Wage: Labour rejects FG’s N58,000 offer, demands N497,000

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, have rejected the Federal government’s fresh N58,000 minimum wage offer.

This was disclosed by sources in the NLC quoted by Channels Television on Wednesday.

The report said that organized labour also saw reasons for dropping their demand to N497,000 minimum wage from N615,000.

On Tuesday, the Federal Government offered organized labour a minimum wage of N54,000. Last week, it offered a minimum wage of N48,000, which prompted Nigerian workers to stage a walkout.

In an interview on Tuesday with Politics Today, NLC president, Joe Ajaero, described the government offer as unsubstantial.

“It is still not substantial compared to what we need to make a family moving,” he said.