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Daily Post Nigeria Published Mixed reactions have continued to trail the bill seeking the removal of minimum wage from the exclusive to concurrent list. DAILY POST recalls that a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, Garba Datti Mohammed, representing Sabon Gari Federal Constituency, Kaduna, marked HB 950, passed its 1st and 2nd reading in February, 2021. Also, last week, labour unions protested across the 36 States of the country and the FCT, kicking against the bill, calling it “anti-workers bill”, and that it must be discarded. But a former member of the House of ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu Leke Baiyewu Published 16 March 2021 The leadership of the House of Representatives and the organised labour are now in a meeting over a bill in the House of Representatives seeking an amendment to the 1999 Constitution by removing matters relating to wages from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List. If passed and signed into law, it will decentralise the current national minimum wage solely determined by the Federal Government and allow state and local governments to determine the wage to pay their workers. At the meeting a...

Every time the Federal Government of Nigeria takes one step forward, they seem to take another 10 steps backwards! It seems that those in power do not quite understand that fighting insecurity successfully, demands a holistic approach. It goes beyond shooting on sight, those armed with AK 47s in the forests. It goes beyond using Super Tucano Jets and satellites, to monitor criminals from above. It also goes beyond seeking external assistance from military contractors, to join this fight. And certainly, it goes beyond rhetorics, motivational speaking and the brave words of encouragement that w...

Minimum wage crisis: Please don’t go on strike again, Gbajabiamila begs NLC, TUC Minimum wage crisis: Please don’t go on strike again, Gbajabiamila begs NLC, TUC Share The leadership of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, begged organised workers not to embark on a nationwide strike over the crisis trailing the bill which seeks to remove the minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to Concurrent Legislative List. The Speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, gave the charge in Abuja, during a meeting Presidents of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Trade Union Congress (TUC) ahead of the ...

Representatives from both sides are seeking to remove matters relating to wages from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List.