Tinubu Signs Bill To Increase Judicial Official Salary By 300%

Tinubu Signs Bill To Increase Judicial Official Salary by 300% while  Nigeria Labour minimum wage is not up to the cost of a bag of rice.

President Bola Tinubu has signed the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill into law.

The Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.

The National Assembly had in June approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels.

This followed the consideration and adoption of an executive bill transmitted by the President which sought to prescribe improved salaries and allowances as well as other fringe benefits for judicial officers and workers.

Chief Justice of Nigeria: N64 million (N5+ monthly)

President of the Court of Appeal: N62.4 million

Supreme Court Justices: N61.4 million

Chief Judges of Federal High Court, FCT High Court, and National Industrial Court: N7.9 million each.

NLC minimum wage – N70,000