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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has stated that the newest national minimum wage might not materialise in September as earlier envisaged.
Ngige , who disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday at his residence in Abuja, stated that the September date was just a romantic date to conclude negotiation on the problem of minimum wage.
“The committee on the new National Minimum wage is expected to conclude its work by the end of September and present its report to the government for deliberation and approval before an executive bill is sent to the National Assembly on the issue ” .
The minister, however , said that the issue of capacity to pay was also paramount in the deliberations on the minimum wage .
According to him , it is to get the input of all those concerned including state governments and the organised private sector that the committee embarked on zonal public hearing across the country .
The minister said further that in the course of the zonal public hearings , many state governments made different submissions ranging from N22 , 000 monthly to N58 , 000 .
( NAN )
