FG plans to increase salaries of Pubic servants -Ngige

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said the Federal Government has plans to raise the pay of public servants considering the increased cost of living.

He said this during an interview on Channels Television program on Wednesday, March 29. According to him, it would help government workers navigate through inflation, the rising cost of living, and a hike in transportation fares, housing, and electricity tariffs.

“The Federal Government is looking at giving people in the public service a pay raise to take care of the increased cost of living, he said

“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.”