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  • Amid the stalemate in negotiation concerning the new national minimum wage, a labour leader, Akeem Ambali, has criticised Nigerian governors
  • Over the past few months, the federal and state governments, organised labour, and the private sector have been negotiating a new minimum wage
  • Recently, governors met to deliberate on the minimum wage for workers and called on labour and other stakeholders to allow each state to negotiate what it can pay

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FCT, Abuja – Akeem Ambali, the national treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has insisted that state governors have no power to negotiate the new minimum wage.