Video: Akpabio lists Nigerians entitled to N70k minimum wage

• Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Nigerian Senate, has disclosed the classes of Nigerian workers entitled to the N70,000 minimum wage
• In step with the Senate president, group love residence motivate, apprentices, and varied domestic workers would no longer be paid less than N70,000
• Akpabio acknowledged this throughout passage of the fresh minimum wage bill forwarded to the chamber by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, July 23

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has introduced that employers are now required to pay their group a minimum wage of N70,000.

He said the approach applies to all employers, including these in exiguous-scale and casual sectors, comparable to employers of domestic workers or tailors.

Minimum wage: Akpabio explains what employers will pay

Akpabio esaid no employer will pay their group below the minimum wage of N70,000, regardless of the receive of labor or switch.

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The Senate president made this identified throughout passage of the fresh minimum wage bill into legislation. The bill goals to verify elegant compensation for all workers.

In a trending video, Akpabio said:

“Whenever you’re a tailor and you exercise extra hands, you have to presumably presumably also’t pay the actual person below N70,000. Whenever you delight in a housemaid, you would no longer pay them below N70,000. Whenever you rent a driver or a gateman, you would no longer pay them below N70,000.”

Tinubu pegs minimum wage at N70,000

President Tinubu currently reached the N70,000 minimum wage settlement with labour leaders after a lot of conferences between the authorities, the union, and the organised deepest sector.

On Tuesday, July 23, the president forwarded the minimum wage amended bill to the National Assembly. It used to be discussed on the ground of the Senate and the Condo of Representatives and because of the this fact handed.

The progress has elevated the most contemporary minimum wage from N30,000 to N70,000. The agitation for a elevated minimum wage started when the president introduced the removal of the gas subsidy and implemented varied financial measures.

Come all the device by the video of Akpabio here:

Akpabio knocked for speaking down on colleague

Legit.ng earlier reported that Akpabio made the headlines again for speaking down on yet any other senator, Opeyemi Bamidele.

In a trending video, Akpabio without be aware stopped the Ekiti lawmaker from speaking concerning the Senate committee on finance and asked him to pass a hurry for the Senate to proceed on recess.

Akpabio’s action got here days after he confronted intense criticism online for also interrupting Kogi senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan.

Proofreading by James, Ojo Adakole, journalist and reproduction editor at Legit.ng.

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