Governors across the 36 states say they would only back a new national minimum wage that states can implement.
Rising from a virtual meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum, the Governors issued a communique where it stated that a new national minimum wage is “still work in progress”.
The NGF Chairman and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq acknowledged various initiatives adopted in recent times by way of Wage Award and partial salary adjustment.
He noted that the 37-member tripatriate committee is still in consultation and yet to conclude work.
The State Governors, it was learnt are “reviewing our individual fiscal space as State Governments and the consequential impact of various recommendations, to arrive at an improved minimum wage we can pay sustainably,” the communique reads
State Governors also agreed to consider the submissions from the National Summit on Justice which concerns legal amendments and policies to strengthen the Justice Sector.
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