Officials of the Federal Government told The PUNCH exclusively that the fresh pay increase, tagged consequential allowance, would lead to a 40 per cent rise in the current pay of government workers. He said, “Consequential allowance Salaries will be increased by 40 per cent for civil servants from level 1 to level 17. The salary increase is effective from January 2023. However, leaders of the organised labour on Monday described the proposed pay rise as a meagre allowance that would not be equivalent to a 40 per cent increase in workers’ salaries. He, however, stressed that civil servants were yet to receive the payment.

Source: Punch April 18, 2023 13:41 UTC