By Chesa Chesa
Leaders of organized labour unions in Nigeria have arrived the Presidential Villa, Abuja for a meeting with President Bola Tinubu over a new national minimum wage.
The National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart, Festus Usifoh, led the labour delegation to the president’s office where the meeting is being held.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris and Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, are among government officials attending the parley.
The meeting is sequel to earlier announcement by the President that he will hold wide consultations before taking a stand on the ongoing debate over the minimum wage.
They 37 man Tripartite Committee on the Minimum Wage failed to broker an agreement between the federal government and the Organised Labour, which led to the presentation of different figures by the government and labour on the minimum wage.
The federal government, state government and the Organised private sector had presented N62,000, while labour is insisting on N250,000.
