Report reaching Verity News a while ago, indicate that the federal government and the delegations of the organised labour Thursday this night reached an agreement over the consequential adjustment and implementation of the new National Minimum Wage.
Organised labour arrived at exactly 7pm, at the federal Secretariat, the venue of the meeting, while the Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige who is chairing the session had arrived much earlier.
The meeting which was scheduled for 7pm started around 8:30pm and is still ongoing at the time of filing this report.
But An insider who is on the negotiation team, revealed to Verity News that so far government had up their game by offering the workers 23. 2 percent for grade level 07, 20 percent for workers on grade level 8, 19 percent for workers on grade level 9.
For those on grade levels 10 to 14, government agreed to pay 16 percent and 13 percent for workers on grade levels 15 to 17.