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Hopes by workers that the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage will begin this month have been dashed, as the National Council of State on Thursday deferred its approval.

Although the council, which comprises the President, vice-president, past Nigerian leaders and governors, said it was “sympathetic to the idea,” it, however, explained that its implementation had to be put on hold temporarily because of ‘technical and practical issues.’

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole made this known in Abuja just as the Nigeria Labour Congress raised a committee to ensure effective mobilisation of workers for its three-day warning strike over the delay in the implementation of the new wage.

The governor, who briefed journalists after the meeting presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo, did not state what constituted the ‘technical and practical issues.’

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday said workers would embark on a three-day warning strike from November 10-12.


The strike is in protest at the Federal Government’s delay in implementing the new national minimum wage, several months after the conclusion of negotiations.


The NLC, which issued the notice in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja, said it decided to give government a 14-day ultimatum to address all the issues.


It added that at the end of the period, labour would proceed on the strike.