PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SENATOR GODSWILL AKPABIO URGES ALL PARTIES TO ABIDE BY THE MINIMUM WAGE NEGOTIATION AGREEMENT.

President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, says State governors no longer have any excuse to complain about payment of a new minimum wage if signed into law going by improvements in revenues that accrue to them monthly.

Akpabio, therefore, stressed the need for all parties to the minimum wage negotiation to abide by the agreement.

On her part, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, said the report of a tripartite committee on the new minimum wage that had been presented to President Bola Tinubu, was a comprehensive blueprint that would drastically improve the conditions of service of all Nigerian workers both in the public and private sectors.

They both stated this in Abuja, at a one-day retreat on Labour Reforms and Living Wage in Nigeria: A Legislative Intervention, organized by the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies NILDS.

Akpabio, who was represented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity, Senator Diket Plang, said the significance of the retreat further underscored the possible legislative interventions in redressing the intractable and seemingly endless conversations around labour issues in the country.