By Idris Auwal
The federal government on Tuesday proposed N54,000 as a new minimum wage representing an increase of N6,000 from the N48,000 earlier proposed.

This was proposed at the ongoing meeting between the federal government, organised labour and other tripartite committee members in Abuja.
Education Vanguard earlier reported that the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had pulled out of the Tripartite committee over the N48,000 minimum wage proposed against the N615,000 demand earlier submitted.
In what was described as an “ insult ” to the Nigerian workers, the labour unions said that “Even the least paid workers in the private sector receive N78,000 as clearly stated by the OPS”.