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Nigeria Workers Unions honor their umbrella Body
of Trade Union Congress till UC and Nigeria

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Level Congress NLC has issued another statement
on Tuesday morning indicating that the organized union

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has not called of strike. It’s
about of money to protest and demand the

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federal Government of Nigeria to honor their
requests of four hundred and ninety four thousand

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miles minium which to be received by
the least thread workers in the country following

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the government increased electricity tariffs and the
current extreme ricen high cost of living in

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the country. But informational govern indicated
that the leadership of the Trade Million Congress

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TUC and the Nigeria Level Congress NLC
has resolved to relax the national strike after

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the outcome of the convent huns Extraordinary
National Executive Council in Abuja. NLC,

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in a tweet on Tuesday morning,
stated that until we hear from our organs

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at our meeting scheduled for today the
fourth of June, we are still on

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strike. NLC had raised alarm of
attempted intimidation by soldiers round the workers unions.

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We are having an emergency meeting at
the Secretary to Government of Federation Office

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on Monday nights, NLC had tweeted
those soldiers are presently surrounding the venue of

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the meeting between Level and Government at
the premises of the HGF. In a

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action, Nigerian Army Authority refuted the
plainsman by the NLC and started in court.

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Does the attention of Army headquarters has
been drawn to a false breaking news

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by NLC alleging that so just currently
surround the venue of the ongoing meeting between

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NLC and the SGF. Curdly note
that the NSA, Malam Nomo Rebado,

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who is also attending the meeting,
arrived at the meeting venue with his retinue

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or statutorily approved military escorts. Once
the meeting is over, the escorts will

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leave the NSA from the venue kindly
in disregard the deliberates and his sading force

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for being peddled about the presence of
the escorts at the meeting. After meeting

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at the SGEF office, the NLC
issue a jointly signed agreement to document both

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from the representatives of the Federal government
and the organized label in the canting to

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have reached an agreement and the may
call of the strike action after Tuesday meeting.

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Further to the negotiation by the Tripertize
Committee on National Minimum Wage n M

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the Wing and subsequent withdrawal of label
from negotiation the Leadership of the National Assembly

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interval on the circle of June twenty
twenty four, the organized level declared nationwide

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strike on molding the third of June
twenty twenty four to drive home its demands.

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Two, the Federal Government in the
national interest convent a meeting with Labor

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Health in the Office of the Secretary
to the Government of the Federation on Monday

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the third of juw with a view
to end in the strike action. Three.

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After existing li liberation and engagement by
both parties the following resolutions, we

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are reached. One the President,
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal

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Republic of Nigeria is committed to a
national minimum wage that is higher than sixty

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thousand miraers. Two. Arising from
the above, the Tripatas Committee is to

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meet every day for the next one
week with a view to arrive in at

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an agreeable national minimum wage. Three
Label indiference to the high estate of the

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President, Commander in Chief of the
Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria’s commitment and

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above under takes to convent a meeting
of its organs immediately to consider this commitment

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end for no local will be victimized
as a result of the industrial action NNI

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in l Abuja on the third of
June twenty twenty four. Signe for the

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Federal Government of Nigeria. One Mohandan
Indries, Minister of Information and National Orientation.

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Two Honorable Geogia, Minister of Stands
for Level and Employment. For the

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Organized Label one Joe Algiro, President
Nigeria Level Congress n LC. Two First

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Doss Possiful, President Trade Union Congress
t UC. The science documents meant available

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by NLC rates in court. It
was observed that on Monday, almost all

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the economic activities in Nigeria were paralyzed
as the workers unions began the indefinite strike

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action over the new minimum wage demand. First level minders on Monday, wild

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enforcing the unpolete strike by NLC and
t UC confronted CSP of Linkaba Commander Rapid

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Response Squad l RS over the looking
of guests at Level State Secretariat ALLOWSA.

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The Federal government had appealed to the
Organized Level to show its plug industrial action

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and return to the negotiating table.
The Nigerian Level Congress NLC and the Trade

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Union Congress t UC had also on
Friday declared an indefinite struck beginning from Monday

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over the high can electricity tariff and
the Indian Ability or the Truck Patal Committee

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on new minimum wage to reach the
consensus on Saturday, the Minister of Information

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and Lafetional Orientation one hundred degrees ORGED
level to weigh its movement consider the financial

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implications of its four hundred and ninety
four thousand layers new minimum which demand on

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the government. Early on Monday,
photographic images made available online indicated that numbers

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of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, person and affiliant of the Nigeria Label

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Congress n LC led siech to the
entrance and entitce of the National Assembly where

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Nigeria lormicals honed. Congress also members
of the NLC and TUC in the those

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state lots of the State Secretariat shutting
out civil sovereigants from the complex and compliance

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with the union’s nationwide indefinite strike directive. The unions say even though the state

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government recently increased the minimum wage to
seventy thousand yers. They had to comply

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with the National Bodies directive maintaining that
the strike is not targeted at the state.

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Before one they strike action began,
the leadership of the National Assembly held

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a meeting with the organized label as
part of efforts to above the planned nationwide

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strike. President of the Senate Gotsu
Aparty or who is presiding over the meeting

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orgies level to show understanding are showing
that the National Assembly will do all it

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can to see that the compromise is
arrived at Speaker of the House of Representatives

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started in Abbas was also in attendance. Also at the meeting held behind closed

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those were Ministers of king Ministries,
the President of NLC Joe Agaile, and

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that of Talk festors Osipo. On
one day, students of the Kanila Polytechnic

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were locked out of their campus by
labor officials in compliance with the nation work

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in the filic struct declared by the
NLC. Talk Local Minia reports indicated that

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as early as seven a m.
Union officials storm the Uguan Mini campus of

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the Polytechnic and drove the students out
of the school before locking the gates.

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Photographs posted online show passengers stranded as
the worker’s minimum wage strike paralyzed domestic flights

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in some oports across the country.
Hundreds of passengers were reportedly left stranded at

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Motanamohanman Airport, Legos. First book
user and ye can Flinger, through his

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page expressed boris and asked a question. Does the title of this strike is

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very critical? If NLC strike extends
to winnes Day? How will South Africa

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geft to view? NLC says restrictions
on international flights at the various international airports

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in Nigeria will start to borrow.
What are the options? Will the bluff

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of andabaff and use you one always
a special technology to fight or detected or

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when sold Africa land in Cameroon and
use boats Biaca express all better? Still

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the lung invented republic and use boss. NLC has the bonds of the whole

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system in their hands. Every minute
Counts Punt newspaper captured the moling nationwide strike

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action in the manopathly presented Bberton below. Some patients at the Kuma General Hospital,

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Abuja have been less stranded as mencal
paslel have declined to attend to them.

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In keeping with the ongoing strike by
the Nigerian Labor Congress, the LLC

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and the Trade Linion Congress commenced an
industrial action on Munday to protest the sixty

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thousand layer’s minimum wage proposaled by the
federal government. Although the guests of the

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hospital were opened, a worker at
the ideology unit was held informing patients who

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came for scans that the hospital would
not be attending to patients as a result

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of the strike. We are not
attending to patients today because of the strike,

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she told the patients. A patient
at the pharmacy unit of the Accident

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and Emergency Words, who did not
give her name, lamented that she had

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met payments but was declined the medication
and a reform of harm money as the

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unit had closed because of the strike. She said, the collected money and

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refused to give us the drugs even
the medicine too. If the New the

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World attend to anyone because of the
strike, why did they open? While

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the postnat or Word and laboratory units
seemed to be operating. Our correspondent gatherned

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that the hospital staff were attempting to
attend to as many patients as possible before

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the labor leaders would arrive to enforce
the strike. Nigerian workers in Abuja had

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shot down the Federal Secretariat in compliance
with an indefinite strike action depeared by NLC

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till you see over new minimum wage
on mum Day. Recall that the Lebor

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unions called for in nitial wide strike
over the breakdown in the minimum wage negotiations

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by a trumpatient committee constituted by the
federal government in January. The leadership of

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the Lebel unions had on May first
given the federal governments up till they thirty

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first to complete negotiations on the new
minimum wage, failure of which they might

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not be able to guarantee industrial peace
in the country. The Parliamentary Staff Union

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of Nigeria joined the indefinite strike action
called by organized Label, shutting down the

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National Assembly. The two guests of
the Assembly complex were shot by the union,

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with workers and other visitors enabled to
gain access. The electricity and water

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supply to the two buildings housing the
Senate and the House of Representatives, as

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well as other facilities in the complex
have been shot down by the lineum.

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The motives and solidarity with the Nigerian
Labor Congress NLC and Trade Minion Congress see

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U SEE, who had earlier called
for an indefinite strike beginning from Sunday in

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life to praise home their demands.
These demands border on the non conclusion of

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negotiation for a national minimum wage and
the hik In electricity tariff. Also,

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BBC, in its reports stated that
this is the fourth national strike since Bonnar

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Tilubu became president last year. Millions
of Nigerians are without electricity after the national

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grid was shot down as part of
the general strike over the rising cost of

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living. The country was plunged into
Douglas shortly after two o’clock local time one

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o’clock green Each meantime, one million
members prevented operators are the country’s power control

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rooms from working and shot down electricity
substations. Many flights have also been concerned

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in the country’s business airport in Legos
and in the capital, Abuja, with

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passengers left stranded. Unions are demanding
a huge increase in the minimum wage,

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saying workers cannot survive on the current
rate of thirty thousand mira eighteen pounds twenty

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two dollars a month. The government
is offering to domine this, but security

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guard Mala Magagic Grama tells the BBC
that this would not even be enough to

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buy a fifty kilograms bag of rice, which he needs to feed his family

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each month. The bang of rice
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forty four pounds more than the government’s
proposal, even before taking other expenses into

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account. I am covered on the
government to consider us an increase day.

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Many one wait so that we can
life and eat decently, says mister Magaji,

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who works for the Education Ministry in
the northern city of calum It’s not

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for that we have topt government officials
earning millions monthly and the smallest workers are

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so little and finding it difficult to
feed. The fifty nine year old saent

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he sometimes has to work to work
as he cannot afford to pay for transports.

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While Nigeria’s economy is in such a
mess, Nigeria’s unions, under the

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umbrella of the Nigeria Level Congress and
the Trade Million Congress, are demanded the

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minimum wage be increased to four hundred
and ninety four thousand mira two hundred and

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ninety pounds, three hundred and sixty
nine dollars, which the say reflects the

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current economic realities. The government says
ac certain these demands would cripple the economy

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and lead to job losses because many
businesses would not be able to pay their

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workers and so have to close.
Margajibaba said he sometimes works to work as

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he can’t afford to pay for transport. Schools, offices and hospitals across the

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country have also been closed. This
strike is the fault since President Bola Tilubu

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came to office last year. Since
then, Nigerians have been hit by a

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double wary of the removal of a
foreign subsidy and the collapse in the value

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of the mira, leading to the
worst economic crisis in your generation. The

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government has ended the policy of pegging
the value of the mayra to the US

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dollar, allowing it to dramatically depreciate. Whereas ten thousand maira will have worth

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twenty two dollars last May, it
will now only for chase six dollars and

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eighty cents. Mister Tallbo says the
mudules are necessary to reform the economy so

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it works better in the long term, but in the short term inflection has

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reason to nearly thirty four percent and
wages have not kept off. Businesses,

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airports, universities, hospitals and power
supply were affected as Level begun an indefinite

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strike on whom they over Level’s demand
for in minimum wage. Both n ELC

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and t UC said the current minimum
wage of thirty thousand layers can no longer

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get out to the world being of
on average Nigerian walker. Laventis that not

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all governments are paying the current wage
award, which expired in Aprin twenty twenty

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four, five years after the minimum
Wage out of twenty nineteen was signed by

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former President Muhammadin Duharri. They act
should be reviewed every five years to meet

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the contemporary economic demands of workers.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating

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Minister of the Economy, while they
ed set the workers demands are not affordable.

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The minister, who was a guest
on Channels Television Sunday Politics program,

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said it is difficult because the worker
deserves his wage and people what is going

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on. The deserts are change end
by law every five years and maybe we

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shouldn’t have to wait five years every
time to set a new wage scale.

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The fact is done by law.
It is a minimum wage, so you

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are not setting a wage for federal
government workers for example in the Federation.

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You are setting a minimum figure that
states must pay, that local governments must

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pay, that the private setter must
pay, that small businesses must pay.

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It is fixed figure, not a
scale. So there are elements of how

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we have since the minimum wage in
the past, particularly in what we call

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the consequential adjustment, which, given
what level is asking today, will be

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unaffordable across the board. We have
to focus on the fact that once it

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is enshrined in law, every money
that falls into the category of having to

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pay the minimum wage must pay it. Therefore the affordability has to be taken

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into account. We probably have to
also take into account the fact that there

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are other ways of supporting the cost
of living or workers other than wage scale.

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BBC reports ends in courte ready bring
day, you bring need in a

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mortgage is noway