Nigeria’s National Assembly, NASS, members comprising the Senate and House of Representatives, are in for yet another increase in their take-home pay. Going by an exclusive report by LegisReportsNG, the lawmakers are posed to do everything possible to make the new pay-rise become reality soon.



It was gathered from the report that the new pay-rise will see each Nigerian Senator pocket N56 million as against N40 million a Senator gets quarterly before this increment, while each House of Reps member smiles home with N42 million, thereby saying goodbye to N27 million each Reps member takes home before this new increase.

The news journal reportedly gathered from impeccable sources that “this new increment, in both the Senate and the House, is being implemented in a manner of subterfuge that will conceal it from the Nigerian public because the payment has been arranged to be paid in instalments to members and under shady sub-heads such that prying eyes within the national assembly system will not easily decode.”

It further reported that the House Committee Chairman on Media, Hon Zakari Mohammed, was contacted for his official response on the matter but he (the Chairman) referred LegisReportNG to the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, which is a body that fixes salaries of public servants in Nigeria.

The Chairman, however, denied knowledge of such pay-rise and also failed to disclose to the reporter his quarterly take-home pay.

On his part, Hon Mohammed’s counterpart in the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, did not respond to “repeated calls to his phone” to get his reaction on the story.

The ‘fat’ pay of Nigeria’s federal lawmakers has always been a subject of public criticism. It is believed that an average Senator earns more than the American President, who is thought to be the most powerful person in the world.

At the moment, the minimum wage of a Nigerian worker is pegged at N18,000. This amount, going by some state government, cannot be paid by them due to ‘resources’ available to some of the states of the Federation.