President Bola Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has signed the new minimum wage bill into law, mandating all employers to pay at least N70, 000 to workers. News Rider reports that the new minimum wage was endorsed by the leadership of two labour unions, comprising Trade Union Congress and Nigeria Labour Congress. Tinubu, who signed the bill on Monday at the State House in Abuja, was surrounded by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and other National Assembly leaders. According to the new law, the sum of N70, 000 was set aside as a national minimum wage for both the public and private sectors. Addressing journalists, Akpabio commended President Tinubu for increasing the minimum wage, adding that the new wage mandated both the public and private sectors to pay workers at least, N70, 000. He said: "We are not only doubling the minimum wage, we have added something on top. Initially, it was N30,000, now it is N70,000. “I’m ecs...
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