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Minimum Wage: Finance minister submits cost implications to Tinubu

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Ibrahim Ramalan
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The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has submitted the projected cost implications of implementing a new national minimum wage to President Bola Tinubu.

The submission comes two days after President Tinubu issued a 48-hour directive to Edun to present a proposed new minimum wage figure and analysis of the associated costs.

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The Finance Minister’s report is to outline several potential new minimum wage levels along with the anticipated fiscal impacts on the federal budget of each option.

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“All parties to the negotiation of the new minimum wage would work together with the organised labour to present a new minimum wage for Nigerians in one week.

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“All of us will work together assiduously within the next one week to ensure that we have a new wage for Nigeria that is acceptable sustainable and also realistic,” the Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris assured Nigerians on Tuesday.

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