President Bola Tinubu has made a promise to give 36 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) and Trade Union Congress(TUC).
Tinubu made the promise on yesterday, Thursday at a meeting with labour union leaders in Abuja.
President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, stated that the move is part of efforts to ameliorate the high cost of living by workers.
Onanuga said that the 36 CNG-powered buses have a sitting capacity of 100 each.
The promise came shortly after the President via Onanuga announced N70,000 as the new minimum wage.
The statement read, “President approves ₦70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.
“President Tinubu also promised to find ways to assist the private sector and the sub-nationals to pay the minimum wage.
“President Tinubu announced the decisions at the meeting held with leaders of TUC and NLC on Thursday in Abuja, the second time the parties met in 7 days.
“The Labour leaders applauded President Tinubu for the fatherly gesture as the President also promised to use his discretionary powers to meet the demands of university unions demanding unpaid 4 months salaries.”
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