{
  "id": 5406449,
  "title": "Beyond the minimum wage: Nigeria’s real affordability problem, By Dipo Baruwa",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/beyond-the-minimum-wage-nigerias-real-affordability-problem-by-dipo",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T20:05:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
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    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/907255-beyond-the-minimum-wage-nigerias-real-affordability-problem-by-dipo-baruwa.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The real policy challenge is, therefore, not merely how much should a Nigerian worker be paid? It is also what kind of economic system surrounds that worker, how much productive value does that system enable the worker to generate, and how much of that value survives the structural costs imposed between earning an income and […] The post Beyond the minimum wage: Nigeria’s real affordability…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}