The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says the Federal Government has approved a pay raise for civil servants.
Ngige, who made this known on Wednesday, said the pay raise is a peculiar allowance for civil servants in view of the current economic reality.
According to him, the development will help the government workers navigate through inflation, rising cost of living, hike in transportation fair, housing and electricity tariffs.
In his words, “The Federal Government is looking at giving people in the public service a pay raise to take care of the increased cost of living.
“In the Presidential Committee on Salaries, we have done something for the civil servants for those who are on Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS) and some corporations, MDAs that are on that CONPSS. CONPSS is the salary scale for civil servants.
“We put a percentage for the President to approve, we have approved it at our own committee level. We said it should take effect from January 1, 2023.”
