Adamawa workers demand minimum wage review

Workers nether the Adamawa State Government person requested an upward reappraisal of the minimum wage they presently receive.

The workers, who person been earning the nationalist monthly minimum wage of N70,000, said connected Friday that they request the wage adjusted to bespeak existent realities.

The State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Emmanuel Fashe, who presented the workers’ presumption successful his Workers’ Day speech, said the rising outgo of food, transport, lodging and different basal needs calls for higher wages.

“We petition the reconvening of the authorities Minimum Wage Committee to negociate a surviving wage that matches today’s economy,” Fashe said.

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, who was represented astatine the May Day solemnisation astatine Mahmud Ribadu Square, Yola, by his deputy, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, said the authorities is committed to gathering the needs of workers arsenic resources permit.

On the contented of the minimum wage successful particular, Fintiri said it would beryllium connected what is decided astatine the nationalist level.

“Whenever a nationalist minimum wage is agreed connected astatine the nationalist level, Adamawa volition pb the mode successful implementing it,” the go...