Workers can’t survive on N70,000 minimum wage – Tinubu’s Minister, Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says Nigerian workers tin nary longer past connected the N70,000 nationalist minimum wage with the existent economical pressures.

Keyamo said this astatine the 2026 National Pre-Retirement Summit organised by XEM Consultants Limited.

Speaking astatine the event, Keyamo stated that the rising outgo of surviving had eroded workers’ purchasing powerfulness and made an upward reappraisal of wages necessary.

He, therefore, called connected the Federal Government to conscionable organised labour halfway successful the ongoing wage discussions.

According to him, unions were demanding arsenic overmuch arsenic N500,000, recalling the negotiations that preceded the summation successful the nationalist minimum wage from N30,000 to N70,000 successful 2024.

The minister, however, noted that the existent minimum wage was inactive insufficient to sorb the economical shocks confronting workers.

He arsenic criticised the attraction of workers by immoderate authorities agencies, peculiarly situations wherever employees are denied basal allowances portion elder offic...