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The unions demanded an increase in the monthly minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦494,000. [1] [3] [4] The NLC stated that its aims were to establish a "living wage" and described the current minimum wage as a "starvation wage". [5] They also demanded the reversal of the government's electricity tariff hike, which had caused a rising price of ...
Unions were asking for the current minimum wage of 30,000 naira to be increased to nearly 500,000, which the government rejected, resulting in a fresh strike that grounded Africa’s most populous ...
General minimum wage by territory, as of February 2023. This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the following territories and states with limited recognition (Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, etc.) and other independent countries.
Nigerian labour law looks into the rights, working conditions, minimum wage, termination clauses, and many other rules set by the government of Nigeria. The current version of the act was put into place in 2004, five years after their current constitution was established. [1] A group of men in Africa ploughing with oxen.
ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's main labour unions on Friday said they had declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failing to agree a new minimum wage with the government. The Nigerian Labour ...
The increase expected to take effect this month takes the minimum wage to 55,000 naira ($71), still far below the 200,000 naira ($258) the unions had requested. The labor unions did not ...
18 July – The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, and the Nigerian government agree on a new minimum wage of ₦70,000 (US$43) per month, ending prolonged negotiations amid high inflation and a weakening currency. [28] 26 July–11 August – Nigeria at the 2024 Summer Olympics [29]
The effective nationwide minimum wage (the wage that the average minimum-wage worker earns) was $11.80 in May 2019; this was the highest it had been since at least 1994, the earliest year for which effective-minimum-wage data are available.