Topic: Tinubu has agreed 70k minimum wage for Nigerian works - page 2. (Read 350 times)

For long I never considered civil servant a successful person, to me they are not successful because they don't have their own opinion regarding what they do for almost 35 years of their service, and after that the went home with not, I know they will be given an entitlement but to me it rubbish, imagine someone that retired this year and they are expecting their entitlement to be around 5 million naira with this current economy will have nothing to do with it because prices of things have gone high to extend that what 5 million naira of 2015 can cover 20 million naira of 2024 can not, if really the should consider the have to be measuring all this things with the current situation to make atleast 70% balance.

To answer your first question, the implementation of the minimum wage is applicable to both public and private sectors, however when we are talking about the inclusion of private sectors we are talking about those that have met government standards and are regulated by the government and not some minor private sectors that can't measure up to government standards.

The agreement by the Nigerian government and the NLC on #70,000 as the minimum wage is not even a problem, the problem is why would labour accept a review of the minimum wage every 3 years, isn't 3 years too much because it is believed that the major reason for reviewing the minimum wage is for it to measure up with the situation of the current economy then what if before the next 3 years, the economy becomes even worser and an average worker is not able to meet daily requirements with that #70,000 isn't that gonna become a problem as well? they would have just accepted the minimum wage of #70,000 without entering into an agreement of a review every 3 years IMO.



This is also one of the major problems because last time when FG approved #62k as the minimum wage, some state governors were lamenting that they won't be able to pay workers that amount so is it now that they have increased it further to #70k that they would be able to pay workers? The government needs to proffer a way to checkmate the activities of the state government even to the local government and ensure that this implementation of a new minimum wage cut across every sector of government parastatals and they should also assist states that may be experiencing difficulty in paying workers this agreed minimum wage since each state generates different revenues, some state might be going through severe economic situation therefore they can only function better when the federal government lends them a helping hand.

I been dey para for this minimum wage matter wey labor been carry hold hand dey joke with government but since then don approve the 70k I go say at least for ones the labor presido don don one better thing since I sabi am. As for your question, I think say company workers no follow for this matter becos we know say some na away get but if na the ones wey concern us e fit work and my own problem now be say, as them don approve am say na all over the country for naija this minimum wage go take effect, my problem na the governors them, to pay am go be talk of war.
These guys ready to delay payment of salary since them approve of the wage and no be all of them like am, I mean the governors them no like as Tinubu approve of this 70k, so na the problem workers go face and to even make the matter worse, things fit top money pass as e been dey and no be wetin we go happy too much about.

In addition to this like the local government worker when this huge amount of money is being paid for like two to three months the worker do not receive it, this country do bypass many things and very wrong honestly and the funny part of it that their heads in the department are not going to say a word to the president.
Let the truth be told how much is 70k monthly just take look at things in the market are getting higher what will 70k buy for a full members of the family. This people just sat there and say  ever bullshit dey want to say.

You have said everything that's on my mind about the enforcement issue, I mean even the previous 30-33k minimum wage too was a very big matter for them to implement then come talk of this one, Omo e go hard well well oo we all know how this country matter be, e fit even be say at the long run of everything e come even end up as big cruise for these government personal wey suppose to with the new accepted minimum wage

The 70k minimum wage is for all sectors of the economy both private and public staffs. Like you said to implement it is another phase now, some state Governors will stil not pay works the minimum wage after collecting huge some of money from the FG. And nothing will happen to them, some private sectors won't pay too and nothing will happen to them. In a working Democratic state, when a minimum wage is been approved by the Central government all sector adhere to the directive,  but here in Nigeria only the FG workers will enjoy the minimum wage, and the government won't do anything about it. That's the level of underdevelopment we are. So useless.

Most private sector that are financially viable pay their workers better than the public sector except for some private schools which is the area where I think this minimum wage should be implemented. The issue I have with the agreed 70k minimum wage is that with the level of inflation that we're currently facing, 70k is too small for a grown adult's feeding and all basic expenses.

We don't even have good numbers of public jobs outside of teaching jobs, a small fraction of health jobs, and a very few administrative jobs which account for less than 20% of the population of our workforce with the remaining 80% or above are either self-employed, private sector workers or unemployed. There is no reason to talk much about this increment in the minimum wage because it's bullshit.

When you compare the amount that a minister or a normal government official earns per month to what a civil servant earns in a year and discover that a civil servant's yearly salary isn't even close to what these ministers and senators earn per month, you will know that it's slavery for you to work as a civil servant .

After all the long deliberation between the federal government and the organised Labour President Tinubu has finally agreed with the Labour that Nigeria minimum wage will be 70k monthly, so actually my question now is that does the minimum of the 70k involves every sector in the country including normal company workers? Or is it only applicable to government workers?, however the reason why I'm asking this is because Nigeria government can be very confusing at times.

And also lets say it involves all the sectors in the country including private companies how would the federal government make sure those private companies comform to there regulations? Because one of the things I understand about this country is that they are very good in making decisions but maintaining them is always the problem because they don't have a good law enforcement agency.

So what do you guys think about the new development by our president Tinubu?

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/714906-updated-tinubu-approves-n70000-minimum-wage-for-nigerian-workers