{"id":8664,"date":"2019-04-19T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:17:48","slug":"minimum-wage-students-react-as-buhari-approves-payment-of-n30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/minimum-wage-students-react-as-buhari-approves-payment-of-n30000","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage: Students react as Buhari approves payment of N30,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Students Movement (PSM), a Pan-African Students\u2019 group, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the New Minimum Wage Bill into Law.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari on Thursday signed the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2019 into law.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The President of PSM in Nigeria, Mr Bestman Okereafor, gave the commendation in a statement made available to NAN on Thursday in Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>Okereafor noted that PSM saw the signing as a long-awaited gesture to workers in Nigeria to enjoy the fruit of their labour.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, appealed to state governors to strictly adhere with the new monthly minimum wage by prompt payment of workers\u2019 wages or salaries in their various states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attention of the leadership of the PSM has been drawn to the decision of President Buhari to sign into law the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy this Act, the new minimum wage is now N30,000. PSM considers this as a progressive minded decision, considering what is obtainable in other countries in Africa and the World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation at our disposal reveals that President Buhari assented to the Act on Thursday in Abuja, mandating all employers of labour across the country to pay workers a minimum of N30,000 monthly wage,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate had on March 19, approved N30,000 as the new national minimum wage with an appeal to the Federal Government to expedite action on its assent and implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Students Movement (PSM), a Pan-African Students\u2019 group, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the New Minimum Wage Bill into Law. Buhari on Thursday signed the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2019 into law. Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) disclosed this while briefing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[97,249,340,327],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-buhari","tag-minimum-wage","tag-students","tag-workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minimum wage: Students react as Buhari approves payment of N30,000 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/minimum-wage-students-react-as-buhari-approves-payment-of-n30000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minimum wage: Students react as Buhari approves payment of N30,000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Progressive Students Movement (PSM), a Pan-African Students\u2019 group, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the New Minimum Wage Bill into Law. 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