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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe has said state governors should decide the new minimum wage they can pay to workers.<\/p>\n

Okupe faulted the national minimum wage Act which mandates governors to pay a uniform minimum wage to the workers in their various states.<\/p>\n

Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Friday, Okupe said: \u201cWe should not make laws that are all-encompassing, that make it compulsory for all governors in the federation to obey them. They are sub nationalities on their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean for instance, if you pay a minimum wage in Lagos, why should I pay that in Sokoto? Let every governor decide for his own state by his own people that this is what I can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is coming when the Federal Government proposed a fresh N62,000, while labour reduced their demand from N494,000 to N250,000.<\/p>\n

The demand for an improved wage led to labour declaring an indefinite strike on Monday but was called off on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The industrial action was called off to give room for more negotiations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, state governors have lamented that they can\u2019t pay N60,000.<\/p>\n

They noted that some states can\u2019t pay the current N30,000 minimum wage.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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