The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the organised labour did not agree on any specific figure as the new minimum wage.
NLC was reacting to President Bola Tinubu’s claims that an agreement had been reached on new national minimum wages.
Speaking Wednesday during his nationwide broadcast to mark Democracy Day, Tinubu said a consensus had been reached on the long-debated new minimum wage between the Federal Government and organised labour.
The president revealed that an executive bill will soon be sent to the National Assembly to formalise the new minimum wage agreement.
He emphasised that his administration chose a democratic approach over dictatorship in addressing the demands of labour unions.
But in a statement, the acting President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, said there was no agreement reached by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage at the time negotiations ended on Friday, June 7, 2024.
“Our demand still remains N250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand Naira) only and we have not been given any compelling reasons to change this position which we consider a great concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite negotiation process,” Adeyanju said.
NLC said it has to raise the point for President Tinubu, Nigerians and stakeholders to be aware, because it appears that those who briefed him on the outcome of the tripartite negotiation conclusion did not tell him the true situation.
