President Bola Tinubu had earlier presented the minimum wage bill to the House for consideration and passage into law.
The bill gives legal backing to the new minimum wage agreed upon by organized labour, the private sector, and the government after negotiations.
The bill also reduces the timeframe for considering a new minimum wage from five years to three years, as President Tinubu promised.
According to a letter from the presidency, Tinubu urged the lawmakers to expedite the passage of the bill to ensure immediate implementation for the benefit of Nigerian workers.
The House passed the bill expeditiously, replacing the National Minimum Wage Act of 2019, which provided for an N30,000 minimum wage.
Speaking on the development, Muhammed Bello El-Rufai, the lawmaker representing Kaduna North federal constituency in the Green Chamber, summarized what happened in the House.
El-Rufai said:
See Bello’s tweet here:
TimesNow.com.ng earlier reported that the House of Representatives had passed a bill proposing an additional 74 seats for women in the national assembly to the second reading.
Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the House, led 12 others to sponsor the bill, which seeks to reserve one seat each in the Senate and the House of Representatives for women.
According to the bill, if passed through, the number would commence at the end of the current National Assembly tenure.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
