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The wait for the template on the new national minimum wage will soon be over, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeruka Onyejeocha announced yesterday.

Onyejeocha spoke at a town hall engagement organised by her ministry in Abuja just as the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, inaugurated a 16-member committee on consequential adjustments in salaries, to deliberate on issues arising from provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2024.

The various state governments are attributing the delay in their implementation of the new minimum wage to the non-release of the template by the National Salaries, Incomes & Wages Commission (NSIWC) since the signing of the new minimum wage bill by President Bola Tinubu in July.

“As we speak there’s a meeting on the government side this morning on the new minimum wage and consequential adjustment and by 2 pm, the tripartite are meeting with the Head of Service. Once they get what we are supposed to pay they will start paying,” Onyejeocha said.

She said the federal government should not be blamed for the non-implementation of the new minimum wage by the states.

According to her, the state ought to have constituted their own committees to work out the figures “because it doesn’t take rocket science to have figures of what we should really give.”

She spoke of the determination of the federal government to tackle “headlong all socio-economic ills that have troubled our nation and we shall by the grace...

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