We Can No Longer Pay N18,000 Minimum Wage, Govs Cry Out

 Thirty-six States Governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage to workers owing to the poor state of the economy.salaries Rising from a crucial meeting on that ended

at the early hours of Thursday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, the governors said that the dwindling prices of oil had
drastically affected their States’ income.Specifically, they said that the burden of the wage was lighter when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.They therefore sought to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the economy, resolving that the only way out of the quagmire was to diversify the economy to agriculture and mining.
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