Nigeria, Jan. 7 -- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will hold a nationwide protest on Tuesday over the president's delay in transmitting the recommendations of the committee on a new national minimum wage to the National Assembly.

The NLC general secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson, said this in a statement made available Monday evening.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how NLC threatened to embark on a nationwide protest on January 8 if the federal government does not send the tripartite committee's report on N30,000 minimum wage to the lawmakers.

The organised labour issued the threat following President Muhammadu Buhari's statement that a "high powered technical committee" would be set up to devise ways to ensure that its implementatio...