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Translate Home » Columns » Afe for Vanguard » NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: Impracticable and unfair: Commendation for national assembly (2) NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: Impracticable and unfair: Commendation for national assembly (2) On By Aare Afe Babalola, CON, OFR,SAN “Owing to the disparity in the standard of living across all the states of the federation, it will be unreasonable, unfair, unjust and inimical to wellbeing to set a standard minimum wage for all workers in both the public and private sector in Nigeria”. In the penultimate edition, I discussed the incidence of the National Minimum Wage which a Bill before the National Assembly proposes to include in the concurrent legislative list. Not unsurprisingly, this proposal has generated negative reactions from the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC; the Trade Union Congress, TUC; which both embarked on a nationwide protest and from members of the public. Even some members of the National Assembly, who appear

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