Three days from today is May 1, 2024, a day that is designated globally as the International Workers Day, to commemorate the struggles by labour to earn a more respectable treatment by employers. For Nigeria, it has been a tradition for governments at various tiers to honour labour with designated policy measures that address conditions of work for workers. With this year not being an exception, the day also has an additional ring to its credit as a new national minimum wage is expected to be unveiled by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. However, due to prevailing circumstances, the expectation in respect of the launch of new national wage is overshadowed by the paucity of consensus among the 37 – member tripartite committee set up by the Federal government in January 2024 on the project. In the likelihood of failure to resolve the wide discrepancies among the takes by the various stakeholders, the President may be disposed to-announce a figure that lacks the buy-in of the critical stakeholder as labour, and risk further unrest that may spell more harm than good for the country.