The Senate has passed a bill that seeks to amend the National Minimum Wage Act, 2019, to increase the national minimum wage from N30,000 upward to N70,000. Also passed by the Senate on Tuesday is a bill which seeks to reduce the time for periodic review of the National Minimum Wage from five to three years, and for related matters. …

President Bola Tinubu has presented the Minimum Wage bill to the House of Representatives for consideration and passage into law. The bill is expected to legalise the N70, 000 minimum wage recently agreed upon between Organised Labour, Organised Private Sector and the government after series of long drawn negotiation. The letter from the President, which was read on the floor …

BARRING any last-minute change, President Bola Tinubu will be transmitting the New National Minimum Wage to the National Assembly next week. The transmission of the Executive Bill to the National Assembly will be after the President meets with the leadership of the Organized Labour on Thursday. Recall that President Tinubu had met with the leadership of organized labour on Thursday …

The Senate has assured Nigerians that the National Minimum Wage Bill will receive the expeditious attention it deserves as soon as the National Assembly receives it from the executive branch. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, gave this assurance in an interview, in Abuja, yesterday. According to him, the National Assembly especially the …