Tag: Salary increase

FG approves 40% pay rise for lecturers

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FG approves pay rise

…Introduces ₦140,000 professorial allowance The Federal Government has approved a 40% salary increase for lecturers and introduced a new professorial cadre allowance, giving Professors a monthly top-up of over ₦140,000. Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, announced the measures on Wednesday, following the signing of a new agreement with ASUU that ends a 16-year stalemate over the 2009 FGN–ASUU pact. He said the deal includes nine clearly structured Earned Academic Allowances, and assured that funding has been secured for full implementation across federal tertiary institutions.

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Fury over politicians’ pay rise plan as Nigerians battle hunger, inflation

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Fury over politicians’ pay

Public anger has erupted over moves to raise salaries of President Bola Tinubu, governors, lawmakers, and ministers, with critics blasting the proposal as shamelessly insensitive at a time of worsening poverty and economic hardship. Recall that the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMAFC), confirmed that it was reviewing pay packages for top office holders, describing current salaries as “outdated”.  Speaking during a 3-day capacity-building training in Abuja, the Clerk to the 10th National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, explained that the reform seeks to improve service delivery and enhance lawmakers’ performance.…

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FG plans salary increase for Tinubu, Ministers, Legislators, other political office holders

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FG plans salary increase

The Federal Government is considering a salary increase for President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, senators, ministers, and other political office holders, following a proposal by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMAFC). RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, who announced the plan at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, described the current salary structure as outdated and unrealistic, noting that it has remained unchanged since 2008 despite rising responsibilities and economic challenges. Shehu revealed that the President currently earns N1.5 million monthly, while ministers receive less than N1…

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FG approves 25%, 35% salary rise for civil servants

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Asiwaju on pay uncrease

The Federal Government has approved an increase of between 25% and 35% in salary increase for civil servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. The salary structure is the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure, (CONPSS); Consolidated Research and Allied Institutions Salary Structure, (CONRAISS); Consolidated Police Salary Structure, (CONPOSS); Consolidated Para-military Salary Structure, (CONPASS); Consolidated Intelligence Community Salary Structure, (CONICCS) and Consolidated Armed Forces Salary Structure, (CONAFSS). According to an issued statement signed by the Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Emmanuel Njoku said the increases…

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Tinubu approves N35,000 provisional wage award for all FG workers

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President Bola Tinubu has approved N35,000 as a provisional wage award for all treasury-paid federal government workers for a period of six months. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who announced this in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said that this followed consultations between the federal government and the leadership of the labour unions at the Presidential Villa. At the meeting, the Federal Government also pledged its commitment to fast-track the provision of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to ease public transportation occasioned by subsidy removal on PMS. The Federal Government also…

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FG approves 25% pay raise for lecturers in federal institutions, ends impasse

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The Federal Government has approved the implementation of 25% pay raise for lecturers in all federal institutions. The letter, which was addressed to the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, had indicated that the Government has increased the salaries of workers in the Federal Government institutions. The letter, signed by Chairman of the Commission, Ekpo Nta, revealed that the 23.5% earlier approved was increased to 25%. The Government had earlier objected to the payment of 25% to lecturers in the tertiary institutions when it raised those of Professors to 35%. However,…

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Fuel Subsidy: FG to begin 40% pay raise for workers April ending

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The Federal Government is set to begin the payment of the planned 40 per cent increase in civil servants pay by the end of April. President Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly expected to give his final assent for the disbursement of the payment, and when he does, the pay rise will come about two months before the proposed June date of the petrol subsidy removal. According to reports, the Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, said the government might begin the payment by the…

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Dwindling Economy: Federal workers demand 30% salary stimulus within 14 days

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The Federal Workers Forum (FWF) yesterday demanded that the Federal Government within the next 14 days pay 30% workers salary as stimulus payment to all federal workers to cushion the effect of the present economic hardships. The Forum, in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Andrew Emelieze, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, stressed that there is the urgent need for government to come to the rescue of federal workers by bringing forth a cost of living allowance package for them and…

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President, VP, Senate President, Speaker, CJN, governors, others to enjoy pay hike – Revenue Commission

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The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMAFC) has disclosed that it has concluded arrangements to start the process of the review of the remuneration of political and public office holders as well as judicial officers in the country. A statement from RMAFC quoted the Commission’s chairman, Mohammed Bello Shehu, as stating this during a courtesy visit to the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, in his office in Abuja. However, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and some experts said RMAFCs statement was…

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FG reveals plan to increase salaries of Federal civil servants

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President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to review the salaries of deserving civil servants after the completion of work of the Presidential Committee on Harmonisation of Salaries Service-wide. Buhari revealed this yesterday at the Nigeria Civil Service Day Celebration, which was held at the Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja. The President, represented by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Musa Bello, disclosed that his administration had already set up the Presidential Committee on Harmonisation of Civil Servants Salaries Service-wide. He, however, pointed out that following the gradual decline in…

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