{"id":75069,"date":"2025-09-07T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75069"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:06:13","slug":"nlc-demands-urgent-review-of-%e2%82%a670000-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/07\/nlc-demands-urgent-review-of-%e2%82%a670000-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Demands Urgent Review of \u20a670,000 Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has called for an immediate review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current \u20a670,000 benchmark is unsustainable in the face of rising inflation and worsening living costs.<\/p>\n<p>NLC Acting General Secretary, Benson Upah, said the value of workers\u2019 pay has been severely eroded, leaving many unable to meet basic needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that \u20a670,000 is not sustainable,\u201d he warned, stressing that while the union prefers dialogue, industrial action remains an option if negotiations fail.<\/p>\n<p>The demand comes as several states have already surpassed the federal benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>Imo State recently raised its minimum wage to \u20a6104,000, while Lagos and Rivers States have increased theirs to \u20a685,000.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Shehu Mohammed, commended the states\u2019 proactive steps, describing them as a clear signal to the federal government to provide a true \u201cliving wage\u201d that reflects current economic realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has called for an immediate review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current \u20a670,000 benchmark is unsustainable in the face of rising inflation and worsening living costs. NLC Acting General Secretary, Benson Upah, said the value of workers\u2019 pay has been severely eroded, leaving many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75071,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069\/revisions\/75071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}