Nigeria plans to distribute grains and fertiliser from Monday and raise salaries of government workers, the vice president's office said, in a bid to cushion the impact of ending a subsidy on petrol that has worsened a cost of living crisis in Africa's largest economy.

Nigeria plans to distribute grains and fertiliser from Monday and raise salaries of government workers, the vice president’s office said, in a bid to cushion the impact of ending a subsidy on petrol that has worsened a cost of living crisis in Africa’s largest economy.

  • Zorque@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Nigeria’s main labour unions and the government in June set an eight-week timeline to finalise an agreement to raise the minimum wage for government workers.

    At the behest of the union of those workers, yeah.