May Day: Edo workers seek review of N75,000 minimum wage

Organised labour successful Edo State connected Friday called for an upward reappraisal of the N75,000 minimum wage, citing rising ostentation and the expanding outgo of surviving arsenic workers marked the 2026 Workers’ Day successful Benin City.

DAILY POST reports that the State president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Bernard Eguakhide and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart, Joseph James Wasah, made the telephone successful their abstracted speeches connected Friday, May 1, 2026 successful Benin City.

Eguakhide opined that implicit 70 percent of workers walk astir of their income connected basal survival.

He said, “Inflation remains astir 28 per cent to 30 per cent, nutrient prices person accrued by implicit 50 per cent, proscription costs person surged by implicit 50 per cent.

“The effect is clear. Workers are getting poorer contempt moving harder, wages are nary longer capable to warrant a decent modular of surviving .

“Upward reappraisal of the minimum wage from N70,000 to N75,000, arsenic the N75, 000 minimum wage tin nary longer instrumentality workers to their enactment spot and backmost location owed to the terms summation successful petroleum products each implicit the satellite to...