
Members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday set the new National Minimum Wage as N30,000. They reached the decision a day after conducting a public hearing on the bill for a new national minimum wage. The lawmakers at the Tuesday plenary considered the report of the ad hoc committee that looked at the bill clause by clause.Passing the bill for the third reading on Tuesday, the lawmakers unanimously approved the N30,000 recommendation by the committee in consonance with the resolution by
the tripartite committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari.