Adedokun Waliyu 
Organized labor has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s proposed N25,000 provisional wage increase for low-grade workers to mitigate the impact of petrol subsidy removal.
They also rejected the government’s plan to limit the provisional wage increase to six months and the proposed N15 million additional Conditional Cash Transfer for vulnerable households.
President Tinubu had announced these measures during Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary broadcast to address the removal of petrol subsidy.
Labor demands that the provisional wage increase should apply to all workers and not just for six months, continuing until a new minimum wage is approved next year.
Additionally, organized labor insists that the Conditional Cash Transfer for the poorest and most vulnerable individuals should be raised to N25,000, as opposed to the N5,000 provided by the previous administration.
