NLC faction asks for N90,000 national minimum wage

A faction of  the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Mr Joe Ajero , yesterday rejected the N56,000 minimum wage proposal submitted to the Federal Government by the NLC faction led by Mr Ayuba Wabba. According to Vanguard news, Mr Ajero's reason for demanding N90,000 national minimum wage is because of harsh economic conditions workers are facing, and  the state of the nation where the current exchange rate is so high. Furthermore, he noted that their demand would go higher than N90,000 if the exchange rate go above N500. He told his audience during a pre- May Day symposium titled 'Inclusive Socio-Econmomic Space for Sustainable Development", that he was not part of the N56,000 proposal agreement since cost of living is so high and the socio- economic conditions facing workers is too harsh, the N56,000 proposal will not be enough for the workers. In addition to this, Mr Ajero lamented how workers had been going to the stadium to salute those who have been enslaving them inspite of what they pass through, but this time around they would gather under the bridge of the National Stadium which they now called 'Workers Freedom Square'. He said that workers would work round the streets to let everybody know that there is no electricity despite high tariff rate, no fuel, no good roads, no jobs, universities are being shut down. On the same note, Dr Femi Aborishade,a human rights activist and a former lecturer at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, called on Ajero, Wabba  led NLC and TUC to be united and come up with a national minimum wage because it is obvious that the ruling class had institutionalized poverty, unemployment and illiteracy to the common man.