Nigeria, Nov. 5 -- The labour unions in Nigeria will formally write state governments on Wednesday and ask them to begin negotiation on the consequential adjustments arising from the new minimum wage.

The unions said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the end of a meeting of their states joint councils.

They also said the percentages in the agreement they had with the federal government will be the minimum they would accept from any state.

Under their agreement with the federal government, workers in the COMESS wage structure on salary grade level 7 got 23 per cent increment, grade level 8 got 20 per cent, grade level 9 got 19 per cent, grade level 10 -14 got 16 per cent while grade level 15-17 got 14 per cent.

For those on the second catego...