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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE ACT 1981 A 53 1981 No. 6 AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE A NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE FOR WORKERS AND FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH. BE IT ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and by the authority of same as follows : 1.-(1) As from the commencement of this Act, it shall be the duty of every employer (except as provided for under this Act) to pay a wage not less than a national minimum wage of N125 per month to every worker under his establishment. (2) Any agreement for the payment of wages less than the national minimum wage as prescribed 'in subsec…