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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a closed meeting with the country’s 36 state governors.
The meeting, which began at about 12:40 p.m., is holding inside the council chamber at the presidential villa, Abuja.
The meeting is expected to discuss a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
A presidential committee set up by the government under the leadership of a former Head of Service of the Federation, Ama Pepple, recommended that the new minimum wage should be increased from N18,000 to N30,000.
However, governors said they would not be able to pay that amount, and warned they may have to cut jobs.
The governors, who met under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), met Thursday night and resolved to meet with Buhari.
Recall that President Buhari, had, on November 19, held similar meeting with representatives of Nigerian Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where the same issue of national minimum wage was deliberated upon.
The 36 state governors had since expressed reservations over the proposed N30,000 new minimum wage by the Amal Pepple committee, saying the state governments were not in a stable financial position to pay it.
The Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara, Abdul’aziz Yari, had, on November 15, told newsmen at the end of an emergency meeting of the governors in Abuja that payment of N30,000 wage was not practicable.