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Nigeria Raises Wages Ahead of Worker Strike Over Sweeping Reforms
- Workers have been hit by subsidy cut, currency devaluation
- Nation also plans to save money by deploying gas-fired buses
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Nigeria announced a temporary wage increase among a set of measures aimed at cushioning the impact of reforms on citizens and averting a strike scheduled to start on Tuesday.
The West African nation is “introducing a provisional wage increment to enhance the federal minimum wage without causing undue inflation,” President Bola Tinubu said in a broadcast on Sunday to mark Nigeria’s independence anniversary. “For the next six months, the average low-grade worker shall receive an additional 25,000 naira per month,” he said.