Southwest governors discloses new plan minimum wage, improved electricity, minshare details

• 17 Nigerian governors (The Southern Governors’ Dialogue board) maintain reportedly made up our minds to toughen electricity provide in their states
• In a contemporary document making the rounds in the polity on Thursday, June 27, the governors reveal the thought to generate 90,000 MW in three geo-political zones
• While some governors maintain insisted on no longer paying N60,000 because the contemporary minimal wage, the 17 governors maintain assured organised labour of a better minimal wage amid negotiations with the FG
• The governors also proffer solutions to the continuing minimal wage disaster between the federal authorities and the NLC, TUC

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of expertise covering political occasions and actions.

The Southern Governors’ Dialogue board, the umbrella body for 17 governors from the three geo-political zones of South-West, South-East and South-South maintain called for the glory of the cost of living and ability of every deliver to pay the contemporary minimal wage.

“Enable deliver negotiate minimal wage”, 17 govs make clear Tinubu

As reported by The Punch, the governors beckoned on the federal authorities led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to allow every deliver to negotiate the contemporary minimal wage with the labour unions.

This changed into as soon as contained in a dialog issued on the conclude of their meeting held on Monday, June 24, in Abeokuta, the Ogun deliver capital and made on hand to journalists on Thursday, June 27.

The dialog changed into as soon as signed by the total 17 southern governors.

Electrical energy provide: 17 govs to generate 90,000MW

Speaking additional, the Southern Governors’ Dialogue board also disclosed it has deliberate producing 90,000 MW of electricity to cater for the strength needs of 90 million residents of the plot.

The forum acknowledged it’s miles embarking on this venture the utilization of the rule of thumb of thumb of 1,000 MW per 1 million inhabitants to reach at its 90,000MW target, Vanguard reported.

The member states maintain therefore been encouraged to take honest correct thing in regards to the most modern constitutional amendment that now permits states to regulate, generate, transmit and distribute electricity whereas also pondering renewable sources of vitality to raise the dream to actuality.

PDP chieftain speaks on N100k minimal wage

Legit.ng earlier reported that Rilwan Olanrewaju, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP), acknowledged every deliver authorities has the aptitude to pay up to N100,000 as minimal wage.

In an interview with Legit.ng, the PDP chieftain advocated that states needs to be allowed to pay per what they salvage as allocation and their within revenue.

Olanrewaju lamented that some governors are unwilling to faucet into their deliver’s resources to generate extra revenue whereas advocating for deliver helpful resource regulate.

Source: Legit.ng