By James Moses (9News Nigeria -Jos)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said that Nigeria, the most populated African country, is “a very poor country”
Onanuga said the resources of the country were being exaggerated by citizens, adding that the minimum wage of a normal Nigerian worker was below of their countrerparts’ Onanuga in an interview with Arise TV’s Prime Time programme, said:
“What is happening is that our country is very, very poor country. I will tell you why I said we are very poor country I think we have a wrong impression of wealth of our country. It is exaggerated.
“This country, for example, If we start from minimum wage, you will discover that If you compare our country with Kenya or South Africa, South Africa’s minimum wage is like $240 a month. In Nigeria, our N33, 000 is just about $39, look at the gap.
“You can see that this is reflected in other wage. Look at what the Chief Justice (CJ) of South Africa earns, it’s about at the rate of dollars now, it must be about 20 to 30 times of what Nigeria’s CJ earns. And it’s all over”.
Onanuga reaction came a few hours after the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Joe Ajaero, said Nigerian workers should earn one million naira (N1m) as their minimum wage due to the current economic hardship faced by Nigerians.
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