Nigeria has some of the world’s highest paid lawmakers..

Nigerian legislators, among the world’s top paid, receive annual salaries of between $150,000 to $190,000 per annum depending on exchange rates. At current exchange rates Nigerian lawmakers, earn around $260,000 more than British MPs who make around $103,000 according to data from The Economist. In fact, until plunging oil prices started putting pressure on the Nigerian naira earlier this year, the Nigerian lawmakers were the highest paid lawmakers in the world.

The average legislators’ pay is more than 50 times Nigeria‘s GDP per capita. In a country where millions live on less than two dollars daily and minimum wage is set at $68 a month, the legislator’s bumper pay has been described as outrageous.

Between 2011 and 2020 the National Assembly received N250 billion yearly..
BudgIT’s estimation also shows that since 1999, the National Assembly has received about N2.26 trillion yet there has been little accountability.


The yearly allocation for the National Assembly, which has less than 10,000 individuals on its payroll, surpasses the annual budgets of 21 of Nigeria’s 36 states including Katsina, Benue and Jigawa all with populations of more than 4 million people.

The calls for a slash in their salaries resonates with millions of Nigerians who are keen to see public service holders live less luxurious lives while the majority of their countrymen wallow in poverty.
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Hmmmm, this country ain't ready to develop. We're doing the things that'll rather deter us from developing

Those End Sars organisers. (Feminist coalition) and Co should please get us out of this madness.

With the way they were able to coordinate things then shows there's hope for youths. We guys are easily compromise with cash by politicians.

Yet the country remains the poverty capital of the World.