President Bola Tinubu has made a promise to give 36 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the labour unions.
He made the promise on Thursday during a meeting with leaders of the labour unions.
According to the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the move is part of efforts to ameliorate the high cost of living by workers.
He added that the 36 CNG-powered buses have a sitting capacity of 100 each.
This is coming after the President through his spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga had announced N70,000 as new minimum wage.
The statement read, “President approves ₦70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.
“President Tinubu also promised to find ways to assist the private sector and the sub-nationals to pay the minimum wage.
“President Tinubu announced the decisions at the meeting held with leaders of TUC and NLC on Thursday in Abuja, the second time the parties met in 7 days.
“The Labour leaders applauded President Tinubu for the fatherly gesture as the President also promised to use his discretionary powers meet the demands of university unions demanding unpaid 4 months salaries.”