Wendy R. 
President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with the leadership of the organised labour today to try to finalise the lingering matters around the National Minimum Wage.
He personally met with them last week after the tripartite committee he set up to negotiate with the Labour failed to convince them to accept the offer made by the government.
While the government is proposing 62 thousand Naira as the National Minimum Wage, the labour is stuck on 250 thousand Naira.
President Tinubu has repeatedly said the organised labour’s proposal was not realistic, giving the country’s current economic situation, but citing the unpredictable waves of inflation being experienced, the organised labour has also consistently argued that the 62 thousand Naira proposed by the government was inadequate.
After last week’s inconclusive meeting, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Muhammad Idris, said today’s meeting would produce the final stance agreed upon.
He explained that the draft therefrom would be sent to the National Assembly for legislation.
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