N70,000 Transport Allowance: TUC Insists on Sustainable Salary Increase
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has reaffirmed its demand for a sustainable salary increase as alternative to another wage award, insisting the N70,000 transport allowance agreed
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has reiterated its demand for a sustainable salary increase to address workers' hardship, rejecting an N70,000 transport allowance agreed upon between the federal government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). At the conclusion of their emergency National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting on November 4, 2026, the TUC emphasized that salary increases would offer a more meaningful intervention to improve purchasing power and living standards.
The TUC, led by Secretary General Comrade Nuhu Toro, stated that the minimum wage is a statutory floor and not a ceiling for workers' earnings. The TUC is demanding a salary increase rather than another wage award due to the federal government's failure to fully implement the wage award palliative agreed upon in October 2, 2023.
This agreement was intended to run until a new minimum wage was signed into law on July 29, 2024, but workers received only three months out of the ten months agreed upon.
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