- Ngige said the news of the salary increment was a fallout of his engagement with State House Correspondents after meeting with President Buhari in Abuja.
- Said the increase he talked about was on the remunerations and emoluments of the affected workers especially the civil servants.
- Said he is optimistic President Buhari will receive and consider the recommendations before the end of the first quarter in 2023.
December 30, (DAILY SUNRISE) — The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it is not reviewing the salaries of civil servants as earlier reported in the news but reviewing some peculiar allowances known as remunerations and emoluments.
This disclosure was made in a statement released by the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator (Dr) Chris Ngige on Friday in Abuja through media head Olajide Oshundun.
According to the statement which was sighted by DAILY SUNRISE, the news of the salary increment was a fallout of the minister’s engagement with State House Correspondents in Abuja after his recent audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. But the minister clarified that the increase he talked about was on the remunerations and emoluments of the affected workers especially the civil servants.
Part of the statement read:
“The Presidential Committee on Salaries (PCS) through the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) received recommendations for review of allowances of many Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government. Because salary component is not the requests including the peculiar allowance for Federal Civil Servants amongst others.
In Labour parlance as par payment for compensation for work done, REMUNERATION or EMOLUMENT is made up of salary component and earned allowance component. Therefore, the Federal Government through the PCS could not have engaged on the review of salaries without involving the workers through their unions, represented by this two Labour Federation of workers in Nigeria – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), salary review or renegotiation is part of social dialogue and the product is usually a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) usually agreed to by both parties – employers and employees,” the statement added.
The minister later assured that the committee is optimistic the President Buhari will receive and consider the recommendations before the end of the first quarter in 2023.
Read the full statement below:
