Date: 2019-10-21

The Kwara State Government said it would negotiate with workers. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, in an interview with The PUNCH, said, " We are going to hold independent negotiations with the representatives of organised labour and we will start the payment immediately we agree."

But the Chairman of the NLC in the state, Issa Ore, said workers' demand in the state would be higher than what was agreed on at the federal level.

"On our part in Kwara State, we are going to get more than what the labour got at the federal level," he said.

The state TUC chairman, Kolawole Olumo, said the union was expecting the official template for the new minimum wage.

This, he said, would determine the time the negotiations with government would start.