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By Our Correspondent
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kano State government to pay workers N20,000 and pensioners N15,000 as wage awards following removal of fuel subsidy.
The Chairman, Kano State chapter of NLC, Kabiru Inuwa who confirmed this to Vanguard, said it signed the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on Tuesday.
Inuwa said, “like the N35,000 wage by the Federal Government, we in Kano signed wage awards of N20,000 for workers and N15,000 for pensioners.
“The pensioners will be paid for three months while the workers will be paid for six months because the minimum wage is expected to come to light in the next four months. So with all the delays that might arises, we are hoping before this expires, the minimum wage would have been ready, so the workers will be paid.
“So we did the signing of Memorandum of Understanding, MoU today in the state,” the Chairman, Inuwa however stated.
Vanguard