The Nigerian government and the union will talk again about taking away funding. After President Bola Tinubu got rid of fuel subsidies, the...
The Nigerian government and the union will talk again about taking away funding.
After President Bola Tinubu got rid of fuel subsidies, the two biggest labor unions in Nigeria will meet with government officials to try to get them to agree on a new minimum wage and other requests from workers.
Since funds have been taken away, fuel prices and transportation costs have gone up.
The Nigerian Trade Union Confederation (TUC) said that the federal government has until today to return the minimum wage of 200,000 naira, which was cut when oil handouts were taken away.
The union said that one of the demands it sent to the federal government was that the minimum wage of 200,000 naira be paid. This would help workers who lost their oil handouts when the new government took them away.
Comrade Nuhu Toro, the organization's secretary general, told the BBC that they support a minimum wage of 200,000 naira for a small worker in Nigeria because people have had to deal with high costs of living.
He said, "The cost of goods and living is usually high, so the government has no choice but to raise the 200 thousand naira minimum wage for workers so that they can help make the country rich."
"The government will be able to pay this salary if it cuts down on corruption if it reduces the wealth of the poor, and if it cuts down on spending on unnecessary things."
Toro also said that the government must spend less money, which means that it will find a way to pay workers at least 200,000 naira per month.
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