Govt reforms should not push Nigerians into poverty – Ajaero
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero, while speaking at the Vanguard Economic Discourse charges the government to fix the economy and not allow the citizens to continue to suffer due to its reforms. ON what fundamental are you making the demand of 450k minimum wage from the FG knowing that it might push for more inflation in the country? Ordinarily, I would have asked you to convert this money to dollars and see that it translates to about 20 dollars and that’s the least minimum wage all over the world. You know that the cost of living index determines the wages. I want you to benchmark it with probably a bag of rice which is about 84,000 naira today. I would equally want you to ask people that refill their cylinder maybe at the price of N16,000 or N17,000 in a week or twice in a month which is like 30 something thousand naira. I would equally want you to benchmark it to a plate of mama put at N500 without meat and when you do that, with a fami...