Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Friday in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, appointed a 30-member Tripartite Committee for the negotiation of the New National Minimum Wage for workers in the country. While commending the President for the appointment of the committee, Wabba said it was timely and long overdue. “ If you look at the exchange rate, the N18,000 Minimum Wage of 2011 when we signed the agreement, it was almost equivalent to N110 dollars; today, the N18,000 is less than 46 dollars. The NLC president said that the consideration was imperative to address the issue of social imbalance, inequality and the wide gap of poverty in the country.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2017 12:00 UTC