The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will not accept a new minimum wage of less than N250,000.

Joe Ajaero's led NLC maintained that organised labour did not agree on any specific figure as the new minimum wage.

The NLC made this disclosure while reacting to President Tinubu’s claims that an agreement had been reached on new national minimum wages.

Recalls President Tinubu announcing the conclusion of negotiations on the new minimum wage with organised labour and the private sector in his nationwide broadcast to mark Democracy Day.

President Bola Tinubu revealed that an executive bill to formalise the new minimum wage agreement will soon be sent to the National Assembly.

But reacting via a statement, the acting president of the NLC, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, said there was no agreement reached by the tripartite committee on the national minimum wage at the time negotiations ended on Friday, June 7, 2024, Daily Trust reported.

Adeyanju specifically noted that organised labour was not shifting grounds regarding its N250,000 minimum wage demand proposed to the Nigerian government, The Nigerian Tribune reported.

“Our demand still remains N250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand Naira) only and we have not been given any compelling reasons to change this position which we consider a great concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite negotiation process,” Adeyanju said.

Tinubu's decision on the minimum wage report will determine labour's next action as the federal government offered to pay workers N62,000.