- The N100,000 minimum wage that is being clamoured for by Nigerians is not included in the 2018 budget
- The Senate passed the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law on Wednesday, May 16
- The chairman of the Senate committee on appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, said that the issue of minimum wage may still be under consideration
Shortly after the passage of the 2018 Appropriation Bill by the Senate on Wednesday, May 16, the chairman of the Senate committee on appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, said that no provision was made in the 2018 budget for any increase in minimum wage during the year.
Goje, who briefed newsmen in Abuja, said that the failure to capture the wage in the budget may have been because the executive had not concluded deliberation on the issue, Vanguard reports.
NAIJ.com notes that Goje said: “The government has not brought it. I think that the issue of minimum wage is still under consideration. It is still at the committee level with the executive. When they bring it to us, we will look at it; ours is just to make law.
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“If the executive decides to pay workers N100, 000 per day or whatever it is, if they bring the bill and can justify it, we will pass it. When they bring it, we will consider.”
According to the lawmaker, subsidy on oil was not captured in the budget. He said “The issue of subsidy was raised on the floor. It was explained that the federal government officially abolished subsidy. So, it is not for us to introduce subsidy.
“If they want to pay subsidy in accordance with the law, they have to bring it to us to appropriate. If they bring it, we will appropriate. For now, officially there is no subsidy.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that following the consideration and adoption of the report by the joint National Assembly committee on appropriation, the Nigeria Senate on Wednesday, May 16, finally passed the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law.
The Senate increased the proposal of N8.612 trillion presented by President Muhammadu Buhari in December, 2017 to N9.120trn.
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Source: Naija.ng