Minimum wage: Why Nigerian govt can't pay workers N500,000 - Primate Ayodele to Labour

The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has explained wherefore the Nigerian authorities cannot wage N500,000 minimum wage to civilian servants, claiming it volition pb to a full economical shutdown.

In a connection by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho, the fashionable prophet urged labour leaders to beryllium considerate of the Nigerian system erstwhile making demands due to the fact that a N500K minimum wage isn’t bully for Nigeria.

He said: “The Nigerian authorities cannot wage a N500,000 minimum wage to civilian servants. It’s a happening that volition ne'er travel to pass; it tin lone beryllium improved gradually truthful that it won’t origin economical hardship.

“Labour leaders should beryllium considerate successful their demands. The authorities decidedly has to summation the minimum wage due to the fact that the existent 1 doesn’t align with the authorities of the Nigerian economy; it tin hardly assistance households feed. It needs to beryllium increased, but N500,000 is excessively much.”

Minimum wage: Why Nigerian govt can't wage workers N500,000 - Primate Ayodele to Labour