Ajuri Ngelale, President Bola Tinubu’s special assistant on media and publicity, has stated that his boss wants to “double” the present minimum wage.
This was said by Ngelale during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday night.
He stated that the federal government is aware that the elimination of the petrol subsidy is “hurting” Nigerians.
The national minimum salary is now N30,000, but Ngelale remarked that with the subsidies removed, states now have the cash to support a new national minimum wage.
Ngelale stated:
“It’s absolutely evident at this point and I do not want to preempt President Bola Tinubu.
“And I also don’t want to preempt the work of the minimum wage review committee. But what I will say is this, it is evident that the president would want nothing less than a doubling and I say nothing less.
“This means you’re looking at a basic minimum of a doubling of the current minimum wage.”
cc: Daily Post ng
