By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Governors of the 36 states of the federation Thursday said though they were not opposed to the ongoing plans to approve a new minimum wage, they lacked the capacity to pay.
The governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum have however commenced moves to ensure that all salary arrears owed by states were cleared.
At its meeting Wednesday night in Abuja, the governors met with the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, to seek ways of getting debtor states to offset arrears of workers’ salaries using the funds from the outstanding Paris Club refund.
The Chairman of the NGF and Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, said the governors were in support of negotiating a new minimum wage but that the issue was the ability or resources to take care of the new minimum…
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