Minimum wage: Strike looms as FG warns labour, discloses actual amount it is willing to pay workers

  • The N250,000 minimum wage demand has become a major concern for the Tinubu-led government
  • While the federal government urged labour to reconsider its demand based on economic realities, the NLC and the TUC have urged Tinubu to accept its demand
  • Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, described labour as selfish and insisted that FG can only afford to pay N62,000, urging NLC to be realistic

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

On Sunday, June 16, the presidency insisted that the N250,000 minimum wage clamour by organised labour is unsustainable.