The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to consider increasing the national minimum wage of Nigeria to N100,000.
AbdulRazaq made the appeal in Lagos on Friday when members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, led by Vice President Kashim Shettima, visited President Tinubu at his Lagos residence on the occasion of Sallah.
Speaking during the visit, the NGF chairman noted that many states were already paying close to N100,000 as wages and called on the Federal Government to begin discussions on a new minimum wage benchmark.
On the issue of minimum wage, most of the states are paying close to 100,000 naira today and I urge your excellency, let’s all have a discussion of moving the minimum wage to 100,000.
“We know we will get the normal support from you as we move forward to implement that,” he said.
