Nigerian workers get credit alerts as Tinubu’s government commences payment of N35000 wage award
Nigerian workers have started receiving credit alerts as the Federal Government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu commenced payment of the N35,000 wage award to federal civil servants, under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure.
According to The Punch, some civil servants confirmed that they started receiving credit alerts on Tuesday, October 31, 2023.
A civil servant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed receiving payment for September only and not for two months as promised.
The source said, “Yes I did receive it. I saw the alert about 15 minutes ago. I think it is for September because the alert indicated September.”
Another civil servant said ,”Yes, I have seen mine too but we are expecting to see another alert because the President said it would start from September so maybe another one will come which will read October.”
In October, Tinubu approved N35,000 as a provisional wage award for all treasury-paid Federal Government workers for six months.
This wage award followed the outcome of the meeting between the representatives of the Federal Government and leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to avert the planned nationwide strike by the unions on aimed at protesting subsidy removal.
The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, (NSIWC), confirmed the development and said implementation of the N35,000.00 per month wage award for Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies will be funded from the treasury.
Ekpo Nta, the chairman/chief executive officer of NSIWC, disclosed that this only applies to treasury-funded offices while non-treasury-funded Tinubu’s government agencies are to implement the same from their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) or statutory allocations.
