President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, December 13, through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, finally agreed to consider a pay rise for Nigerian workers, in 2017.
Ngige, who made the disclosure while speaking in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, said it is one of the packages of President Buhari, in improving the living standard of Nigerian workers.
From the arrangement, he said the private sector workers would also be made to increase the salaries of their workers, adding that a Committee would be set up to work out the details.
Based on his statement, Labour Unions would be actively involved in working out details of the programme.
On the achievement of the Ministry, Ngige, described the ongoing N-Power Employment Programme, as one of the cardinal programmes of the present administration, adding that, under the programme which would last for two years, the beneficiaries would receive monthly salaries of N30,000, and would be posted to primary schools to teach.
Speaking further, he said 5000 persons with disabilities, would be involved in the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfers, while one million youths, would be employed in the next 12 months, all in a bid to reduce unemployment in the country.
While concluding his speech, he disclosed that government would in addition, train about 200,000 youths, under the N-Build Programme for Skills Acquisition, after which all would be settled to start their own businesses, explaining that applications for the programme were already being processed.
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