Adejumo said, “Minimum wage is a universal law and no state can pronounce a minimum wage, it’s an aberration. What happened in Edo state is just a kind of distraction to us because they’re trying to spite the government to know where they’re going. But from the feelers we’re getting, we believe strongly that the government is very passionate and consider all the indices that is on ground, because what we proposed now, both NLC and TUC, is 615,000 as a benchmark to survive as a worker in Nigeria-to pay for rent that is not affordable, you have to pay for high cost of goods and services, you have to take care of your children school fees, you have to do transportation to and fro offices.”
The NLC PRO then appreciated the federal government’s approval of a 25%-35% pay raise for civil servants and 28% raise for pensioners in celebration of Workers’ Day as he said, “We are most happy despite all the economic hardships going on in this country at the moment. We are feeling the brunt of the fuel scarcity and so many other economic situations that has crippled the life of an average worker, because as we speak now, I must confess to you we are happy with this announcement, though that is not the minimum wage it is just an adjustment to reduce the disparity in the categories of salary scale that we have in Nigeria.
