[GIST] Nigeria passes minimum wage bill as authorities warn against protests
Nigeria’s national assembly on Tuesday passed a bill to more than double the minimum wage for federal workers, with the authorities warning against protests over soaring living costs. The monthly minimum wage is set to rise from 30,000 to 70,000 naira (around $43) once President Bola Ahmed Tinubu gives his assent to the bill, which passed rapidly through the Senate and House of Representatives. Lawmakers also reduced the review period for the wage from five years to three years. Passing the bill was “important to the Nigerian people”, said Senate president Godswill Akpabio from Tinubu’s APC party. Africa’s most populous
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