Nigeria, May 3 -- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have given a breakdown of their proposed N615,000 minimum wage.

A statement released by the NLC on Friday said Food and Transportation took the more significant proportion of the proposed minimum wage.

The breakdown showed that N270,000 (for thirty days) was benchmarked for Food and N110,000 for Transportation.

Others are Electricity/Power (N20,000), Accommodation (N40,000), Utility Water (N10,000), Kerosene/Gas (N35,000), Clothing (N20,000), Education (N50,000), Sanitation (N10,000) and Medicals (50,000) resulting to a total sum of N615,000.

Recall that Festus Osifo, President of TUC and Joe Ajaero, the President of NLC, in separa...