FG Pleads With Lecturers, Promises To Pay New Minimum Wage

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An appeal was tendered by the Federal Government to striking university lecturers o their indefinite industrial action since Nov last year.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige pleads withthe university teachers to show mercy on students by calling off their strike.

Ngige, speaking with reporters in Awka, Anambra State on Sunday, also declared that Federal Government would pay a minimum wage, adding that things were being worked out by the Committee saddled with that responsibility.

He said: “FG will comfortably pay minimum wage, we want to pay it, but there must be balancing because figures were bandied and we are asking Labour to exercise patience.

“I appeal to ASUU and Labour to have mercy on students and be patient. As far as I’m concerned, we have treated Labour well. And they should also know I’m a comrade and that is why I always intervened on matters that concern them.”

The FG and Labour representatives adjourned their meeting until Monday (today), after a five-hour deliberation last Friday.

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