Tinubu Gives 48-hour Directive to Finance Minister on New Minimum Wage

President Bola Tinubu has instructed the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to provide financial implications for the new minimum wage within two days.

Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and National Orientation, made this known while briefing State House Correspondents after a meeting between the negotiation team and the president at Aso Rock on Tuesday.

“All parties to the negotiation of the new minimum wage would work together with the organised labour to present a new minimum wage for Nigerians in one week.

“All of us will work together assiduously within the next one week to ensure that we have a new wage for Nigeria that is acceptable sustainable and also realistic.”

Idris also disclosed that the President had given a marching order that all those who have negotiated on behalf of the Federal government and all those who are representatives of organised private sectors, the sub nationals to come together to have a new wage award that is affordable, sustainable and realistic for Nigerians.

More details to follow…

(DailyTrust)