According to Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Advisor on Information and Strategy, it would be challenging for the Nigerian government to set the new, proposed minimum salary at N100,000.
In a Monday interview with Arise Television, Onanuga disclosed this.
He claimed that if N100,000 or more was eventually accepted as the new minimum wage in the nation, the federal and state governments would not be able to pay the salaries of their staff due to the existing financial situation of the nation.
Onanuga buttressed his assertion with the fact that most state governors were even currently struggling to pay the present minimum wage.
He said, “Let me tell you, the last time it was done under President Buhari when the wage was increased to N30,000 per month, till today, 26 state governments could not pay it, out of 36, Only 10 are paying.
The rest have not paid the whole rate or maybe they’ve just improved a bit. But mostly, according to the people who have monitored it, 26 state governments are unable to comply.
Whatever the government wants to do now, even if we increase wages to 100,000 naira, will the Federal Government be able to pay?”
