The federal government has commenced payment of the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance to only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure.
Other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit in the new 40% Peculiar Allowance.
These categories of excluded workers include university workers, who are under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure. Medical doctors working for the Federal Government, who also are under the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale are not eligible beneficiaries.
Other categories of federal workers who will not benefit from the peculiar allowance are nurses, non-academic workers in tertiary institutions, the police and members of the armed forces, among others.
In a sighted memo, the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission headed by Ekpo Nta noted that only 144,766 staff members of the federal civil service under the CONPSS salary structure would be paid.
Ekpo stated in the memo addressed to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, “I refer to my letter No. SWC/S/04/S,651/11/271 dated 24th of February, 2023 and the conclusions of the 11th meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries held on 7th of March, 2023 on the above-mentioned subject and convey approval for the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to implement the peculiar allowance attached herewith for staff on the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure.”
“This approval takes effect from 1st of January, 2023 and the estimated sum of seventy nine billion, three hundred and seventy-three million, three hundred and forty thousand, nine hundred and fifty-nine Naira (N79,373,340,959.00) per annum required to implement it for the 144,766 staff on CONPSS will be funded from the treasury.
“The commission will periodically monitor the implementation of this approval through salary inspections.”
In a breakdown attached to the memo, the commission stated that a total of 144,766 staff members would benefit from the payment.
