FG has approved increment in income for civil servants — Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday, March 29 confirmed that the Federal Government has approved an increase in the income of civil servants in Nigeria.

Ngige made this revelation while granting a television interview.

He said there would be an increase in a peculiar allowance for civil servants in regards to the current economic reality.

He said the money would assist civil servants cope with the challenges which come with the inflation, the growing cost of living, increase in transportation fare, electricity and housing bills.

“The Federal Government is looking at giving people in the public service a pay raise to take care of the increased cost of living,” he said.

“In the Presidential Committee on Salaries, we have done something for the civil servants for those who are on Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS) and some corporations, MDAs that are on that CONPSS. CONPSS is the salary scale for civil servants.

“We put a percentage for the President to approve, we have approved it at our own committee level. We said it should take effect from January 1, 2023.”

The minister explained that the federal government has planned for the rise in the income of civil servants in the 2023 budget.

While reacting to the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Ngige said the financial policy has reduced vote buying and insecurity in the country.

He however accepted that the execution of the policy was not as smooth as expected.

He, however, admitted that the implementation of the policy was not smooth.