Minimum wage: Labour'll sanction states defying directive — Ajaero
•Says no national strike AS the deadline given to states to implement the new N70,000 minimum wage expires on Sunday, the organised labours has said that any state council that fails to comply with the directives would be sanctioned. This came as the national President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Joe Ajaero, said that there was no planned national strike today rather all the actions would take place in state councils that defaulted. Speaking on the update of the directives to some state councils whose governments is in default and whether the strike would hold, he said: "There is no national strike, you should get updates from states, don't expect anybody to sit from Abuja and be telling you what's happening in Katsina or any other states, no. "We gave them directives, some of them are making last minutes efforts to give a semblance that they have complied or they are complying, some are trying to comply and all that. So, these issues will come from the s...