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Following the second meeting between the unions and the federal government on 18 July 2024, the NLC and TUC agreed to a settlement with the federal government on a new minimum wage reform: the national minimum wage was to be set at ₦70,000, further minimum wage reviews will take place every 3 years and the federal government would invest ...
Public sector workers in Nigeria on the minimum wage will see their salaries double after the government reached an agreement on Thursday with labor unions that have been threatening further ...
As of January 3, 2022, effective state minimum wage rates range from US$7.25 to US$15.00 per hour, with an average of about $12.00 across all minimum wage workers as of 2019. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] [ 240 ] Local government minimum wages exist as well, the highest of which reach to $17.13 per hour.
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 ...
29 May – Nigeria readopts Nigeria, We Hail Thee, which was the country's national anthem from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing Arise, O Compatriots. [20] 30 May – 2024 Aba killings: Eleven people, including five soldiers, are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba, Abia State. [21]
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.
The Corps Members receive a monthly stipend which is equal to the National Minimum wage and an additional 10% of the Minimum wage. In 2024, following the announcement of the new minimum wage of 70,000 Naira by the President, [ 9 ] a new allowance was also approved for the Corps Members, bringing their monthly stipend to 77,000 Naira. [ 10 ]
The existing minimum wage, which was introduced six years earlier but has not been adjusted since, has been whittled away by inflation to only US$42.80 per month. [ 146 ] According to the International Organization for Migration , the number of immigrants residing in Nigeria has more than doubled in recent decades – from 477,135 in 1991 to ...