President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the newly approved National Minimum Wage into law.
Apparently, in a desperate move to halt the planned protest and pacify aggrieved workers, the President assented to the law on Monday during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting attended by the leadership of the National Assembly led by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
This came as Senator Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, as well as other key members of the National Assembly leadership, joined the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
This is an unusual development since the advent of the present democratic dispensation that the Council presided over by the President is admitting the leadership of the legislature into the Council Chamber for the meeting.
No official communication was passed to newsmen, but it was gathered that their invitation was in connection with the new minimum wage to be signed by President Tinubu.
The National Assembly leadership arrived at the venue at about 1:38 pm.
Their involvement in the council meeting comes amid burgeoning tension over the planned protest by some Nigerians against the rising cost of living in the country.
Both the executive and legislative branches are making desperate efforts to ameliorate the hardship in the country and are trying to convince those organising the protest of the need to call it off.
