The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday, has revealed that the Federal Government has approved a pay raise for civil servants in the country.
Ngige, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, monitored by Truth Live News said the pay raise is a special allowance for civil servants in regards to the current economic reality which has caused hardship to families.
According to him, the raise which will be in certainly percentage will ease the stress of workers and aid in scaling through harsh economic situation like inflation, rising cost of living, hike in transportation fair, housing and electricity tariffs.
He said, “The Federal Government is looking at giving people in the public service a pay raise to take care of the increased cost of living.”
“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.”
Giving further explanation, he said that the current administration has made provision for the increment of civil workers’ salaries in the 2023 budget.
The Minister speaking on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy, said the policy reduced the level of insecurity and vote buying during the 2023 general elections.
Ngige, however, admitted hurdles in the implementation of the naira redesigned policy which he said was not smooth.