Olusola Fabiyi and Olufemi Atoyebi, AbujaGovernors on Monday described as unpatriotic the insistence of the Nigeria Labour Congress that N30,000 was the least it would accept as the national minimum wage. The governors, however, said they would have loved to pay the N30,000 minimum wage being demanded by workers, but regretted that paucity of funds would not allow them to do so. They said that the claim by the NLC, through an interview granted The PUNCH by its Secretary General, Mr Peter Eson, that governors were merely refusing to pay the N30.000 national minimum wage, was not true. “Let it be known that governors have met the President twice on this matter and presented their books to buttress their point. Already, he said revenue to states had dropped drastically while demands by competing needs kept rising astronomically.

Source: Punch January 01, 2019 00:45 UTC