Blogger Peter Okali has a post up detailing the salary of a Nigerian Senator. I’m going to quote most of it, so large hat-tip is due him. (1m Naira is about US$6,100)

Basic Salary (BS) – N2,484,245.50

Hardship Allowance @ 50% of Basic Salary – N1,242,122.70 (I love this kind of hardship)

Constituency allowance @ 200% of BS - N4,968,509.00

Furniture Allowance @ 300% of BS – N7,452,736.50

Newspaper allowance @ 50% – N1,242,122.70 (Which kind newspaper be this, abi na online or hard copy?)

Wardrobe allowance @ 25% – N621,061.37

Recess Allowance @ 10% – N248,424.55

Accommodation @ 200% – N4,968,509.00

Utilities @ 30% – N828,081.83

Domestic Staff @ 35% – N863,184.12

Entertainment @ 30% – N828,081.83

Personal Assistance @ 25% – N621,061.37

Vehicle Maintenance Allowance @ 75% – N1,863,184.12

Leave Allowance @ 10% – N248,424.55

One off payments (Severance gratuity) @ 300% – N7,452,736.50 (Once they get fired.)

Motor Vehicle Allowance @ 400% of BS – N9,936,982.00 – Every Four Years

Senator’s Salary per month – N2,456,647.70
Total = N29,479,749.00 Per Year
Allowance of Nigerian Senator: $1,500,000/year

To clarify, Nigerian senators get paid about $180,000 per year as a salary. On top of this, they get about $1.5m in allowances, as detailed above. And that’s what they receive officially. You can multiply that by a factor of 3-5 to account for the graft, backhanders, and additional income streams they enjoy whilst in office (and often thereafter). According to Peter, the senators – of which there are 109 – have been asking for an increase in their allowances to $183,000 per month, or $2.2m per year. By contrast, the US president gets paid $400,000 per year.

As Peter says:

Little wonder why everyone in Nigeria has political ambitions and will do whatever it takes to get there.

Indeed. And little wonder why most Nigerians are hopelessly poor and there is a General Strike kicking off tomorrow.
SOURCE:
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=1144

And this a nation a useless survey class 144 corrupt nation in the world,instead of most corrupt nation in the world.

The people that conducted that survey could have been bribed by nigerian leaders.

And I should respect them ba ! When they are part of the waste that marks out this nation.

imagine outrageous, allowance this allowance that, for doing what specifically NOTHING

Mogbe o! Hardship allowance ké...

Bunch of thieves who sit everyday doing nothing...

abi o my broda...wat is hard about dat....even police and soldiers dont have diz...and ASUU is still on strike

edo3: Mogbe o! Hardship allowance ké...

The case of this Country is hopeless. The other day One Oloye or Omoye died untop a woman, a said banker of his loot and his shameless colleagues were celebrating him and the life he lived. Useless politicians with no class or conscience

Kai, these rogues are enjoying....no wonder the only time you hear them shouting 'Point of Order' is when money is involved

This is why they are trying to make a law to gag online commentators. They are scared if Nigerians really know they are being ripped off, they will revolt.

Governance should be made less attractive by cutting down these largesse paid to members of the parliament. Besides, it shouldn't be a full-time job. Just part time

lol

tomakint: Kai, these rogues are enjoying....no wonder the only time you hear them shouting 'Point of Order' is when money is involved

Here's a report on salaries of legislators from Dailytrust.

Lawmakers in the 36 State Houses of Assembly have received about N12 billion in salaries and allowances in the first two years of their tenure and passed 601 bills, most of which were initiated by the governors, Daily Trust investigations revealed.
There are 978 members in the state legislatures, soaking up about N6 billion per annum in emoluments.
A state legislator receives about N6 million per annum, comprising basic salaries and other perquisites, according to a Daily Trust analysis based on records obtained from the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
The RMAFC documents were obtained officially through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by this newspaper.
With these emoluments, a state lawmaker earns more than 24 times the country’s Gross Domestic Product per person (GDP).
This means the legislator’s package is 24 times what each Nigerian citizen is worth when the nation’s total wealth is shared by the population.
According to RMAFC records, a state legislator receives an annual basic salary of N1.34 million; accommodation, N802,335; vehicle maintenance, N267,445; and recess allowance, N133,772.
The lawmaker also receives, once in four years, a vehicle loan of N5.3 million, furniture allowance of N2 million and N2.6 million as severance gratuity.
Other yearly emoluments are N334,306 for constituency allowance; N334,306 for domestic staff; N133,772 for utilities; and N66,861 as newspapers allowance.
In addition, the state lawmaker is entitled to N25,000 as duty tour allowance (DTA) per night and 600 US dollars estacode while on foreign trips per night.
Principal officers of the assemblies are entitled to responsibility allowance, while the speaker and his deputy are entitled to security and robe allowances as well as special assistants and legislative aides.
Each lawmaker is also entitled to medicals and special assistants.
The cost of maintaining the state lawmakers is coming to light four months after Daily Trust published details of similar fat-cat emoluments enjoyed by their counterparts in the Senate and House of Representatives, who are on top of the global MPs’ salaries chart.
Executive bills
Daily Trust investigations revealed that despite receiving over N12 billion from June 2011 to June 2013, the lawmakers only passed 601 bills into law.
They appear to be merely waiting to rubber-stamp bills forwarded to them by the executive, as most of the bills passed in the two-year period were annual appropriation bills and supplementary budget bills submitted by the state governors.
Also, there are many states whose assemblies did not pass a single individual member’s bill into law within the period.
In the two years from June 2011 to June 2012, the 202 state lawmakers in the North West passed 122 bills (Katsina State not included as details are not available) and collected N2.424 billion; while 176 legislators from South West received N2.112 billion and passed 107 bills into law (with the exception of those from Ekiti, whose records could not be obtained).
The 158 lawmakers from the South-South, with the exception of Edo where records have not been obtained, had passed 69 bills into law and received N1.896 billion as salaries and allowances.
The North East has 156 state assembly members, who passed 130 bills (with the exception of Borno) after collecting N1.872 billion as emoluments.
The North Central zone, with 158 legislators had collected N1.896 billion and passed into law 125 bills; while the 128 lawmakers from South East had passed 48 bills (with the exception of those from Anambra and Abia states whose records could not be obtained) and received N1.536 billion as emoluments.
‘Stooges of governors’
Commenting on story, Malam Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, the Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), said the lawmakers lack capacity to perform their functions.
“In Nigeria, the state Houses of Assembly have turned themselves to be the stooges of their state governors as a result of their weaknesses,” he said.
“The state legislatures have failed to ensure full implementation of budgets passed by them by the governors. After reviewing the performance of state Houses of Assembly in the current dispensation, human rights activists, civil society organisations, eminent lawyers and leaders of some political parties, have declared them ‘dead’”.
The CISLAC boss said also that “it is very unfortunate that the doctrine of separation of powers enshrined in the amended 1999 Constitution only exists on paper as the state legislatures have become mere extensions of the executive arm of government, because they are more of toothless bulldogs. Some speakers of the states legislatures and other lawmakers have turned themselves to rubber-stamp to the governors.
“For instance, in many states lawmakers have failed to call their governors to order over their shoddy implementation of the state’s budgets, unbudgeted spending, misconduct, abandonment of capital projects, looting and stealing of public fund etc….
“It on record that most of the state assemblies they don’t hold public hearing, debates and deliberation on key vital important issues that affect their people due to fear of the governors and their incapacitation and inexperience in legislative work.”

Obviously, their salaries are outrageous but the initial report is grossly exaggerated.

wesley80: Obviously, their salaries are outrageous [/b]but the initial report is [b]grossly exaggerated.

See ya self, how can the report be grossly exaggerated when the salaries are outrageous abi is there another higher level than outrageous salaries !!

wesley80: Obviously, their salaries are outrageous but the initial report is grossly exaggerated.

The first is for senators while the second is for state house of assemblies. Cleared!!!

redsun: And this a nation a useless survey class 144 corrupt nation in the world,instead of most corrupt nation in the world.

The people that conducted that survey could have been bribed by nigerian leaders.

If the survey you are referring is the "Transparency Index" index by Transparency International, then u should knw dat The survey actually ranked the most "transparent" nations in the world. And Nigeria came in as the 144th transparent nation, tied with some other nations.
I feel the blame ought to go to the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), since they recommend and approve the salaries of all govt officials.. I remember when DailyTrust first published this. Instead of this ignoble agency to begin plans to cut this outrageous salary, they rather came out to correct the figures, infact there was very little difference between d two figures...
God help this country!!!