Nigeria, Dec. 12 -- The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday issued a December 31, 2019, ultimatum to the 36 state governments to conclude all negotiations and commencement of payment of the new national minimum wage.

The President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, issued the ultimatum at the end of a one-day meeting of all interest groups on the Implementation of the new national minimum wage.

The meeting was held to give participants the opportunity to review the consequential adjustments in salaries based on the approved N30,000 national minimum wage.

Present at the meeting were the leadership of the NLC, all the state chairmen of the NLC and their counterparts in the Joint Negotiating Council (Trade Union Congress side) from the states, the Min...