Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, has said the technical committee constituted by the federal government is not to review the work of the previously constituted tripartite committee.

Rather, he said, the committee was to identify additional sources of revenue to help the government meet the increased costs it would encounter implementing the new minimum wage.

Last Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the committee headed by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Limited, Lagos, Bismark Rewane.

Other members of the committee include representatives of the private sector and some key government agencies, namely former Chairman of the Federal Inland Re...