"Minimum wage is not enough": Nigerian workers cry out for help over cost-of-living crisis

• Nigerian workers said the N70,000 minimum wage is not capable to cater for their outgo of surviving amidst rising inflation
• The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) leaders person asked for an upward reappraisal of the N70,000 minimum wage
• Civil servants successful Kano authorities cried retired for assistance arsenic they person resorted to broadside hustle to conscionable their needs and that of their families

Legit.ng journalist, Adekunle Dada has implicit 8 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary issues

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) leaders person called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's national authorities to urgently reappraisal the N70,000 minimum wage arsenic the state celebrates May Day 2025.

The leaders of organised labour said workers were worse disconnected since President Tinubu’s emergence.

Nigerian workers accidental N70,000 minimum wage is not enough. Photo credit: @NLCHeadquarters/Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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This is contempt Tinubu’s assurances that helium would not lone wage the workers a minimum wage but “a surviving wage.”

As reported by The Punch, labour leaders crossed the state lamented that workers had been crippled by the precocious outgo of prices and soaring inflation.

They said the precocious outgo of prices has made the N70,000 minimum wage inconsequential.

Workers are worse disconnected nether Tinubu's govt

The TUC president successful Bayelsa state, Comrade Julius Laye, said workers are worse disconnected nether the President Tinubu administration.

“Even the minimum wage is not capable to screen Medicare. Incidentally, they person wealth to alert retired to question amended aesculapian attention, but the Nigerian workers bash not person the means to bash so.“We are worse disconnected successful this medication than we had ever been astatine immoderate different time.”

According to Daily Trust, civilian servants successful assorted states said the N70,000 caller nationalist minimum wage is not capable to cater for their outgo of surviving amidst rising inflation.

The workers expressed interest implicit their inability to usage the wage to cater to their indispensable needs.

Kano workers edifice to broadside hustle

A civilian servant successful Kano state, Sulaiman Aminu Yakasai said:

“For america the civilian servants successful Kano State, we person the vantage of combining enactment with concern arsenic a broadside hustle. Even the minimum wage we get is inactive not capable for america and our family. So, I usually spell to marketplace aft closing hours and connected weekends to marque ends meet.”

A schoolroom teacher successful Kano, Salihu Umar, said helium is everlastingly blessed helium maintained his store astatine Kantin Kwari garment marketplace adjacent aft helium got a wage job.

Umar said adjacent with the increase, the wage does not prolong him for a implicit month.

Binta Abdullahi, a wellness idiosyncratic said she spends much than fractional her wage connected transport.

Abdullahi disclosed that she besides sells wares to her colleagues astatine enactment and recovers the money astatine the extremity of the month.

Workers' Day: How champion to honour Nigerian workers

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that an NNPP Chieftain, Olufemi Ajadi, called connected the national authorities to prioritise the welfare of Nigerian workers.

Ajadi made the telephone successful a connection commemorating the Nigerian workers connected the solemnisation of the 2025 International Workers' Day.

According to the NNPP chieftain, the workers play captious roles successful shaping the country's progress, irrespective of the socio-economic challenges Nigeria is experiencing.

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