The Tripartite Committee on Minimum pay met again on Wednesday at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja to resume negotiations on a new minimum wage for the country’s workers.
Representatives of the Federal Government were in attendance, including Wale Edun, Minister of Finance; Atiku Bagudu, Minister of Budget and National Planning; Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, Minister of Labour; and representatives of the Federation’s Secretary to the Government and Head of Service.
On the side of organised labour, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, and his counterpart in the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, were present.
Although none of the state governors were at the meeting at the moment, the Director General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Abdulateef Shittu, was at the meeting.It could be recalled that one of the conditions for suspending the strike on Tuesday was that the committee would continue to meet daily for one week until an agreement was reached for a new minimum wage for workers
President Bola Tinubu had on Tuesday directed the committee to speed up the process, compute the figures and send them to him. The President had also said he was committed to a wage above N60,000 while the TUC and the NLC said they weren’t fixated on their N494,000 demand.
The Organised Labour suspended its indefinite strike on Tuesday after reaching an agreement with the Federal Government that negotiations should continue daily, and Wednesday’s meeting was the first after that agreement was signed.