Beyond the minimum wage: Nigeria’s real affordability problem, By Dipo Baruwa

Premium Times Nigeria | 03-09-2026 09:54pm |

In this opinion piece, Dipo Baruwa argues that Nigeria's real policy challenge is not merely how much a worker should be paid, but also the kind of economic system surrounding that worker, how much productive value that system enables the worker to generate, and how much of that value survives the structural costs imposed between earning an income and spending it. The article goes beyond the minimum wage debate to address the broader affordability problem in Nigeria.

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