Ngige: FG Will Soon Make Pronouncement On Salary Increase For Civil Servants

Ngige: FG Will Soon Make Pronouncement On Salary Increase For Civil Servants

According to Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, the federal government will soon make some announcements regarding wage increases for workers.

Ngige stated this to state house correspondents on December 23 following a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja.

The minister stated that the meeting’s purpose was to discuss issues concerning his ministry, such as employment and productivity.

When asked if salary increases were discussed, he stated that the presidential committee on salaries is collaborating with the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission (NSIWC) on the matter.

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“The commission is mandated by the act establishing them to fix salaries, wages, and emoluments in not only the public service,” he said.

“So, they have the matrix to do the evaluation. They are working with the presidential committee on salaries, chaired by the finance ministry and I am the co-chair, to look at the demands of the workers.

“Outside this, I said discussions on that evaluation are going.”

On if a timeline has been fixed for implementation of a salary increase, Ngige said “as we enter the new year, the government will make some pronouncements in that direction”.

Speaking further, Ngige said 2022 has been a year of industrial disputes with the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU) going on strike, and threats from various unions, including the medical doctors’ association, demanding salary increase.

“Asking for wage increase can also be understandable because of what inflation had done in the economy and the attendant cost of living for people who have to be workers in the public sector,” he said.

“However, I’ve briefed him (Buhari). We are doing some review within the presidential committee on salaries, and discussions are ongoing.

“The doctors are discussing with the ministry of health; insurance people in the public sector are discussing, and there is a general calmness.

“Hopefully, within available resources, the government can do something in the coming year.”