The 36 state governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), are set for a meeting to discuss the National Minimum Wage, local government autonomy, NC-CARES disbursement to the States, among other items.
By Emma Ogbuehi
The 36 state governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), are set for a meeting to discuss the National Minimum Wage, local government autonomy, NC-CARES disbursement to the States, among other items.
The governors are meeting at the National Secretariat of the NGF in Abuja to discuss the update on the issue and to be on the same page with one another.
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By press time, the governors of Oyo, Zamfara, Anambra, Delta, and Gombe States had arrived for the parley. Others are the Deputy Governors of Akwa Ibom and Borno States.
The items on the agenda for the physical meeting are: Chairman’s Welcome Remarks; Minutes of the Last Meeting; Matters Arising/ Chairman’s Briefs, Local Government Autonomy Update ll; ECA, PPT & Royalties Accounts Reconciliation/Debt Net-Off — Update and Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage — Update; Review of NEC Agenda.
Others are updates by NGF Secretariat—Ag. Director General; Program Updates, Health/HCD F. Presentations. World Bank NG-CARES, SABER, Nigeria for Women)—Taimur Samad, Ag.Country; Presidential—Minister and AOB.
This is the first public meeting the governors forum is holding after the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage concluded their negotiations two weeks ago.
President Bola Tinubu in January set up a Tripartite Committee to negotiate a new minimum wage for workers. The committee comprises the Organised Labour, representatives of federal and state governments as well as the Organised Private Sector.
However, the committee members failed to reach an agreement on a new realistic minimum wage for workers, forcing labour to declare an indefinite industrial action on Monday, June 3, 2024. Businesses were paralysed as labour shut down airports, hospitals, the national grid, banks, National Assembly, and state assemblies’ complexes.
