This comes as workers in Taraba and Gombe states proposed N60,000 as the new national minimum wage.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has advocated a proper market survey before reaching a consensus on the new national minimum wage.
This comes as workers in Taraba and Gombe states proposed N60,000 as the new national minimum wage.
Workers in Bauchi and Adamawa states, however, proposed a 50 per cent increment on the current wage – N30,000.
On their part, workers in Borno and Yobe states resolved to accept the final proposal of the presidential tripartite committee on the National Minimum Wage.
Ajaero, who is the chairman of the North-East public hearing on the new national minimum wage, on Thursday in Yola, described the current minimum wage as "a starvation wage."
He argued that determining a consensus on a new wage would amount to a waste of time without first "hearing from the market."
On his part, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, who spoke through the deputy governor, Prof. Kaletapwa Farauta, noted that no amount would be enough for the Nigerian worker, given the current hardship in the country.
Also speaking at the public hearing, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, called for the review of the current sharing formula, as according to him the "majority of the Nigerian people live in the states."
Governor Mohammed noted with concern that "the hardship in the country is tangible!”
“Nigerians are suffering, Nigerians are looking at us, Mr. President,” he said.
Various groups comprising the labour movement, unions and faith groups also presented proposals.