Nigeria News Forum

  The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says the Federal Government has approved a pay raise for civil servants in the country. Ngige, who was a guest on Channels Television’s programme, said the pay raise is a peculiar allowance for civil servants in view of the current economic reality. He explained that the money will help the government workers navigate through inflation, rising cost of living, hike in transportation fair, housing and electricity tariffs. “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 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 sho...

LAGOS — FEDERAL senior civil servants have threatened to down tools over unpaid salary arrears, appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to direct immediate payment of their backlog of salaries and allowances. The workers said their patience had been overstretched. Speaking through their umbrella body, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN , the workers said the current state of affairs in the country, where sufferings had been lifted to a frightening level, was the time to settle the  arrears to calm all frayed nerves and restore normalcy in the system. Addressing delegates at ASCSN National Delegates Conference, NDC, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, outgoing President of the body, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama, said: “You will recall that in one of our correspondences to President Buhari before his inauguration, we did set out an agenda for him towards moving the nation forward. “One of the items on the agenda is the settlement of all outstanding salaries and allowances ...