The President gave the approval on Tuesday shortly after the report of the committee was presented to him.
While promising to forward new minimum wage bill to National Assembly for action, he urged Nigerian workers against being used as political weapons.
He said this while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The report was submitted by the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple.
Buhari has also promised to send a bill to the National Assembly to effect the change from N18,000 to N30,000
