25th March, 2019
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received the report of the Technical Advisory Committee on Implementation of the National Minimum Wage.
Receiving the report when he met with members of the committee at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, he assured that the report would be reviewed expeditiously that the inputs of members of the committee were still needed.
Buhari commended the the chairman and members, as well as representatives of ministries and government agencies for their hard work and patriotism.
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr Bismark Rewane, is the chairman of the committee.
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and the Secretary to the government of the Federal, Mr Boss Mustapha, were among those present at the meeting.
Also in attendance were the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, and that of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, as well as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, amongst others.
The meeting came one week after the Senate approved N30,000 minimum wage for Federal and State workers across the country.
The lawmakers gave the approval after the National Minimum Wage Bill was read and passed for the third time in the Senate.
The President inaugurated the committee in January 2019, Channels Tv reports.