New minimum wage payment will take immediate effect-FG

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

The Federal Government has assured Nigerian workers that the payment of the new minimum wage would take immediate effect.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.

Ngige added that the payment cuts across both the public and private sectors.

The Minister stated that the third category of the country’s “wage structure which includes the military and paramilitary was also factored in the agreement since they are not in the civil service, theirs would be communicated through the appropriate channels.”

It would be recalled that the federal government and labour unions finally agreed on the issues of consequential adjustment for other categories of workers after three days of meeting which ended early today.