NLC suggests a new minimum salary of ?709,000, while TUC suggests ?447,000

Mahe further demanded that the federal government examine the amount that state governments get from the federal government at an upward angle.The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have suggested ?709,000 and ?447,000, respectively, as the new minimum wages.The numbers were revealed on Thursday in Abuja during the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage (TCNMW) North Central Zonal Public Hearing. In the zones, Mr. Festus Osifo represented the TUC and suggested the figures, while Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku represented the NLC. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the committee organized six concurrent hearings that took place concurrently throughout the nation's six geopolitical zones.