Minimum Wage: Why Governors Are Right and What Should Be Done

  • The minimum wage controversy between the governors and organised labour concerning the N60,000 proposed by the federal government
  • Okanlawon Gaffar,

The governors say N60,000 as minimum wage is not sustainable despite the fact that the Nigeria Labour Congress humorously initially fixed the amount to over N600,000. N600,000 is not possible for a poor country like Nigeria. I don’t think that the federal government should set the minimum wage to affect all states. This is itself the problem of our centralised government.