{"id":8583,"date":"2024-07-18T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:43:37","slug":"8583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/8583\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking! President Tinubu Approves New Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Tinubu has approved a N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with a promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.<\/p>\n<p>The Nation reports the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for a scheduled meeting with President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, said: \u201cPresident Tinubu also promised to find ways to assist the private sector and the sub-nationals to pay the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu announced the decisions at the meeting held with leaders of TUC and NLC on Thursday in Abuja, the second time the parties met in 7 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Labour leaders applauded President Tinubu for the fatherly gesture as the President also promised to use his discretionary powers meet the demands of university unions demanding unpaid 4 months salaries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tinubu has approved a N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with a promise to review the national minimum wage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8588,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}