Minimum Wage Has Been Wiped Out by Inflation – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress warned on Thursday, 1 October 2026, that runaway inflation has completely wiped out the purchasing power of the statutory 70,000 naira national minimum wage. Speaking in Abuja as the country marked its sixty-sixth year of independence, labour president Joe Ajaero accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of abandoning breadwinners to cruel market…