May Day: Yobe NLC demands N70,000 minimum wage for LG workers, teachers

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Yobe State Council, has demanded the afloat implementation of the ₦70,000 National Minimum Wage for each superior schoolhouse teachers, superior healthcare workers, and section authorities unit successful the state.

Presenting a memorandum astatine the NLC/TUC Joint May Day Rally 2026 successful Damaturu, NLC Chairman, Comrade Muktar Musa Tarbutu, said the existent uneven implementation, wherever lone authorities civilian servants bask the caller wage, is fuelling economical hardship, draining workers’ morale, and worsening insecurity and poorness crossed Yobe State.

Speaking nether this year’s theme, “Insecurity and Poverty: Bane of Decent Work,” Tarbutu cited Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution, which makes the information and payment of citizens the superior intent of government.

While commending the authorities government’s past cooperation, the labour person presented a database of urgent demands, including afloat minimum wage sum for each section authorities staff, teachers, and superior healthcare workers, arsenic good arsenic the restoration of 100 per cent ove...