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<p dir="ltr"><b>The Senate on Tuesday speedily passed the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 (Amendment Bill).</b></p><div class="m2yai4SM" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">The bill, which scaled second and third readings, just minutes after it was transmitted by President Bola Tinubu, was instantly passed by the upper chamber.</p><div class="YJmMbfgL" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">In a unanimous vote after a clause consideration in the Committee of the Whole, the National Minimum Wage Bill scaled third reading and was passed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Earlier on Tuesday, the President transmitted the National Minimum Wage Bill to the National Assembly for consideration and passage.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The President separately wrote the Senate and the House of Representatives requesting expedited consideration of a bill for an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act, 2019 to increase the National Minimum Wage from â¦30,000 to â¦70,000.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The President also asked the lawmakers to reduce the time for periodic review of the national minimum wage from five years to three years and related matters.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Last Thursday, Tinubu and the leadership of the Organised Labour agreed on â¦70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers</p>
<p dir="ltr">The truce between the government and labour sides followed a series of talks between labour leaders and the President in the last few weeks after months of failed talks between labour organs and a tripartite committee on minimum wage constituted by the President in January.</p>
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