My guess is that those dealing in FOREX trading will profit the most and the higher the new minimum wage the better for these traders.
Why do I feel so? An increase in minimum wage, without corresponding increase in the productive capacity of the citizenry is just a short term gain. I bet in the next 5 to 10 years there will still be cry for minimum wage increase again.
When you are from a home of civil servants, you know it is not new to hear that civil servants are on strike.
Since the government gets most of its foreign exchange earnings from petrol dollars and her budget is tied to the sales of petroleum, the next step is for her to quickly devalue the Naira so as to meet up payment of salaries. A civil service that is the largest employer of labour will simply get the Naira chasing fewer foreign goods.
Inflation rate will increase and real estate investors or landlords will definitely increase the price of house rent and civil servants will again be sure bet for secured housing investment.
How I wish I were some FOREX trader or hedge fund manager, like George Soros, then fortune smiles on me if my prediction goes right. Then I would be called ‘The Man who broke the Naira!’
By Efe Udoro