Nigeria, Jan. 8 -- Nigeria's organised labour unions will proceed with a planned protest today over a new national minimum wage, after a last minute attempt by the federal government to forestall the demonstration failed Monday night.

The federal government's meeting with labour union leaders to avert a national protest over non-transmission of a new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly, was inconclusive Monday.

The planned protest by the labour unions is to demand that Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, will submit a bill to the parliament for the implementation of the N30, 000 minimum wage for workers.

The meeting started 9:20 p.m. Monday night ended 11:45 p.m.

The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, w...