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New minimum wage: Anxiety and hope as negotiation drags
A recent National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates that that around 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. This translates to roughly 83 million out of estimated 200 million Nigerians. According to the World Bank, extreme poverty …