FG Begins 40 Percent Pay Rise For Selected Workers

Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 percent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government.

Other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit.

For instance, university workers and federal medical doctors, who are under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure, will also not benefit from the pay rise. Other categories of federal workers who will not benefit from the peculiar allowance are nurses, non-academic workers in tertiary institutions, the police and members of the armed forces, among others.

In a memo obtained by newsmen, the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission headed by EKPO NTA noted that only 144,766 staff members of the federal civil service under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure would be paid from 1st of January, 2023.

The estimated sum of seventy-nine billion, three-hundred and seventy-three million, three-hundred and forty-thousand, nine-hundred and fifty-nine Naira per annum required to implement it for the affected 144,766 staff.