Minimum Wage: No Cause For Alarm, Says Edun After Meeting Tinubu

The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Wale Edu, says “there is no cause for alarm” on the ongoing negotiations between the Organised Labour and the Tripartite Committee on the new minimum wage for workers in the country.  

The minister made this known after he met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday.

Edun and his Budget and Economic Planning counterpart, Atiku Bagudu, met with the President.

The President had on Tuesday given the finance minister a two-day deadline to come up with figures to be presented to the Organised Labour at the Tripartite Committee meeting on the new national minimum wage.

The President had also said he was committed to a wage above N60,000 while the TUC and the NLC said they weren’t fixated on their N494,000 deman