kingi777:
FG begins 40% pay rise for workers, excludes doctors, lecturers

23rd April 2023

By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole

Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government.
This implies that other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit.
For instance, university workers, who are under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure, and medical doctors, who work for the Federal Government, will also not benefit from the pay rise as they are under the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale.
Other categories of federal workers who will not benefit from the peculiar allowance are nurses, non-academic workers in tertiary institutions, the police and members of the armed forces, among others.
In a memo obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission headed by Ekpo Nta noted that only 144,766 staff members of the federal civil service under the CONPSS salary structure would be paid.
Ekpo said in a memo addressed to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, which was sighted by our correspondent on Saturday, “I refer to my letter No. SWC/S/04/S,651/11/271 dated 24th of February, 2023 and the conclusions of the 11th meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries held on 7th of March, 2023 on the above-mentioned subject and convey approval for the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to implement the peculiar allowance attached herewith for staff on the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure.”
“This approval takes effect from 1st of January, 2023 and the estimated sum of seventy nine billion, three hundred and seventy-three million, three hundred and forty thousand, nine hundred and fifty-nine Naira (N79,373,340,959.00) per annum required to implement it for the 144,766 staff on CONPSS will be funded from the treasury.
The commission will periodically monitor the implementation of this approval through salary inspections.”
In a breakdown attached to the memo, the commission stated that a total of 144,766 staff members would benefit from the payment.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had disclosed that the Federal Government approved a pay raise for civil servants in the country.
He added that the pay rise had been included in the 2023 budget, noting that it would take effect from January 1, 2023.
Ngige described the pay raise as a peculiar allowance for civil servants in view of the current economic reality and it was meant to help government workers to cushion the effects of rising inflation, rising cost of living, and hikes in transportation fare, housing and electricity tariffs.
ASUU, however, protested the exclusion of its members from the payment of the peculiar allowance.
The National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, accused the government of trying to create problems in the system, adding that ASUU would study the situation on the ground and make its stand known soon.
We just saw the news this evening that arrears are being paid to workers. We are surprised. However, we will study the situation. The government is simply trying to create a problem in the system. We are watching and we are studying the situation of things on the ground,” he told our correspondent on the telephone.
The government will spend N79.37bn annually to fund the pay rise, even as some workers have started enjoying the largesse.
The amount, according to information obtained by our correspondent, will be funded from the treasury.
Some federal civil servants, who spoke to our correspondent on Saturday, said they had started receiving bank alerts of the arrears for the first three months of the year.
A high ranking civil servant in Ilorin the Kwara State, who spoke on condition of anonymity, noted that the arrears came in alongside the April salary.
“I received my own arrears today (Saturday). Some of our other colleagues have also confirmed receipt of the arrears. It came in alongside our April salaries,” the civil servant said.
An Ibadan-based civil servant, who confirmed the development, said, “Yes, it is true. Though I am a teacher in a Federal Government school, I can confirm to you that I received my April salary alongside the arrears.
The regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had proposed a 40 per cent pay rise for workers to cushion the effects of the planned removal of fuel subsidy.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Olajide Oshundun, said the pay rise would be applicable to all workers from level 1 to 17.

NARD reaction
The Ngerian Association of Resident Doctors has kicked against the exclusion of doctors from the Federal Government’s pay rise for civil servants.
Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, the President of NARD, Dr Emeka Orji, said, “Our members are not happy with that development, because since over one year that the Federal Government commenced the processes of increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure both for doctors and other health workers, that process has yet to be completed.
We are happy that they increased the salary of civil servants, but the only thing is that they have yet to do ours up till now. These are some of the things causing agitation.
“I’m sure that when we have our national emergency council meeting on Friday, April 28, 2023, this will be part of the major discussions and decisions will be taken in that meeting.”
Orji said the association might be forced to take a more drastic action if urgent steps were not taken regarding pay rise for its members.
He added, “We have gone past the era of petitioning the government. We are currently having a hard time calming our members down and it may not be as easy as we did at the January NEC meeting.
“Instead of increasing the salary, the government is trying to use the back door to sponsor a bill to restrict our movement.”
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Lalasticlala, Mynd44, OAM4J

sunnyflakes:
CONPSS IS ACTUALLY THE POOREST SALARY STRUCTURE IN NIGERIA.

amerengues:
Interesting!

This inconsiderate, reckless, and parochial adjudged adjustment will further plunge civil servants into irreparable divide.

The numerous strikes embarked on by the poor lecturers and measly paid doctors had salary restructuring a part of the agitation.

The FG has largely looked away and deem it fit not to increase it even by 0.000%. This inevitably drove the flight of medical personnels to an unprecedented level so much that the very few ones are either on their way or about to leave. Thus, the doctors treating us are younger than the age of the ailments.

Lecturers, being paid 130k, are leaving in their numbers unrepentantly thereby culminating into a further education rot.

How on earth will you do a selective adjustment without these categories?!

How on earth did you have to wait for the end of the tenure?! Is it to score cheap political points?

Alas! What I fear may chance for this nation!

ahiboilandgas:
graduate salary from 58 to 80 per month for level 8 in conpss this one follow for salary even a serious okada Man earn more

amerengues:
Interesting!

This inconsiderate, reckless, and parochial adjudged adjustment will further plunge civil servants into irreparable divide.

The numerous strikes embarked on by the poor lecturers and measly paid doctors had salary restructuring a part of the agitation.

The FG has largely looked away and deem it fit not to increase it even by 0.000%. This inevitably drove the flight of medical personnels to an unprecedented level so much that the very few ones are either on their way or about to leave. Thus, the doctors treating us are younger than the age of the ailments.

Lecturers, being paid 130k, are leaving in their numbers unrepentantly thereby culminating into a further education rot.

How on earth will you do a selective adjustment without these categories?!

How on earth did you have to wait for the end of the tenure?! Is it to score cheap political points?

Alas! What I fear may chance for this nation!

QuotaSystem:


That particular salary structure (CONPSS) was already poorer than the structure of lecturers/academics to start with.

If the gap between the pay of those lecturers and those on CONPSS did not create an “irreparable divide” all these years, then payment of Peculiar Allowance to bridge the gap will not either.

It will cause it. It is already causing a stir in the public.

Time will tell. This is a selective increment with obnoxious rationale behind it. The police, medical, and lecturers are totally out of this plan.
Give it two months and see what happens

seunmsg:
Before this increment, FG Workers on CONPSS were grossly underpaid. They were the worst paid FG workers because they hardly go on strike unlike other FG Workers who have used strike to bargain for better pay structure.

For years, these categories of workers have been clamoring for the harmonization of salaries across all different salary structures for parity sake. A situation whereby a level 8 step 2 graduate assistant in a university earns more than a level 15 Assistant Director on CONPSS makes absolutely no sense.

What FG has done is very commendable. We should give the president kudos and not attempt to create industrial disharmony by pitching one Union against the other. This publication is in bad taste, misleading, ridiculous and totally condemnable.

seunmsg:
Before this increment, FG Workers on CONPSS were grossly underpaid. They were the worst paid FG workers because they hardly go on strike unlike other FG Workers who have used strike to bargain for better pay structure.

For years, these categories of workers have been clamoring for the harmonization of salaries across all different salary structures for parity sake. A situation whereby a level 8 step 2 graduate assistant in a university earns more than a level 15 Assistant Director on CONPSS makes absolutely no sense.

What FG has done is very commendable. We should give the president kudos and not attempt to create industrial disharmony by pitching one Union against the other. This publication is in bad taste, misleading, ridiculous and totally condemnable.

ozo13:
are u serious, so some federal workers earn as low as 50k monthly.or u are talking Abt the basic .I need to be very sure of this.haaaa.with such , most workers will engage in sharp practices nah

amerengues:


True, what they have done is commendable. However commendable it appears, it's grossly condemnable too.

"A situation whereby a level 8 step 2 graduate assistant in a university earns more than a level 15 Assistant Director on CONPSS makes absolutely no sense". When you make this statement, kindly state the figures please to justify the rationale. The figures are both ridiculous for graduates. Even the 'graduate assistant' earns 105k and after Msc, 111k+.

The police, doctors, nurses are very underpaid......what's the rationale for leaving them out.

In sum, as much as it makes sense to increase these people's wages, it should be general

seunmsg:


A lot of government workers are underpaid quite alright but some are worse than the others. A graduate who is employed as an ASP II in the police force will receive about N120k net every month while a graduate recruited into the civil service on CONPSS grade level 8 step 2 will get a net of about N58k monthly before the increment. With this increment, he will still go home with about N85k way below what his equivalent in the police is getting.

RealityGod:


Do they do the same work? Why not say NNPC or FIRS staff should also be paid the same with lecturers or even the conpss. There’s no place in the world where there is equal pay because there are differences in job requirements. Is the current economic hardship not faced by all? This selective system is just another wicked angle of this evil government.

malcom1X:
The last meal

Blankstare:


Regardless of their workload, the conpss salary scheme is the most satanic salary structure you can ever imagine. Tell me how much workload an average NNPC staff does that the ministry staff doesnt... and entry NNPC is about 300k, ministry staff 56k. If this is not government deliberate corruption, what do we call it?

FreeStuffsNG:
Be happy for them and the govt. If it is those desperate folks you support, they would have done this just before the election as ploy to buy votes. Only Buhari can be this honest and patriotic. He waited till after the election to execute the raise and that is commendable in a way.

Blankstare:


Regardless of their workload, the conpss salary scheme is the most satanic salary structure you can ever imagine. Tell me how much workload an average NNPC staff does that the ministry staff doesnt... and entry NNPC is about 300k, ministry staff 56k. If this is not government deliberate corruption, what do we call it?

ahiboilandgas:
graduate salary from 58 to 80 per month for level 8 in conpss this one follow for salary even a serious okada Man earn more

seunmsg:
Before this increment, FG Workers on CONPSS were grossly underpaid. They were the worst paid FG workers because they hardly go on strike unlike other FG Workers who have used strike to bargain for better pay structure.

For years, these categories of workers have been clamoring for the harmonization of salaries across all different salary structures for parity sake. A situation whereby a level 8 step 2 graduate assistant in a university earns more than a level 15 Assistant Director on CONPSS makes absolutely no sense.

What FG has done is very commendable. We should give the president kudos and not attempt to create industrial disharmony by pitching one Union against the other. This publication is in bad taste, misleading, ridiculous and totally condemnable.