By Damilare Adeleye
President Bola Tinubu has transmitted a national minimum wage bill to the House of Representatives in the National Assembly for consideration and passage.
It was learnt that the executive bill was transmitted to the national assembly on Tuesday.
In a letter read on the floor of the House, Tinubu provides for a new national minimum wage as well as the legal framework for the implementation of the agreed wage.
In the letter, the president urged lawmakers to expedite the passage of the minimum wage bill to ensure immediate implementation for the benefit of Nigerian workers
Tinubu also sought the amendment to the Nigeria Police Act in accordance with section 58 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
This is coming when Tinubu approved N70,000 as the new national minimum wage for workers.
This followed series of meetings between representatives of the Nigerian government and the organized labour.
The President and the leadership of the Organised Labour had last Thursday agreed on N70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
Information Minister Mohammed Idris had also said “the new national minimum that Mr President is expected to submit to the National Assembly is ₦70,000”.
The truce between the government and labour sides followed a series of talks between labour leaders and the President in the last few weeks after months of failed talks between labour organs and a tripartite committee on minimum wage constituted by the President in January.