New minimum wage: Ex-Lagos gov candidate, Gbadamosi hints on workers earning N100, 000

Former governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has said workers in the state should be paid N100, 000 and not N30, 000 as minimum wage.

Gbadamosi explained that no worker can comfortably live with the new minimum wage of N30,000 in Lagos State because the cost of living has increased.

Speaking at a conference in Lagos, the former governorship candidate said: “Lagos should be paying at least N100,000 minimum wage because of the high cost of living in the state.

“There is no worker that can live comfortably on N30,000 salary in a month.

“The bad roads force transporters to keep increasing fares, rents are high, Lagosians pay so much to send their children to school.

Lagos State internally generated revenue in a month is said to be above N30bn and that is the official figure. The state gets allocation from Abuja every month, so, can we say we get value for about N40bn made in a month?”