Details of federal legislators’ salaries and allowances revealed
The National Institute of Legislative Studies, NILS has released a set of documents, showing what constitutes the earnings of federal legislators in Nigeria.
The documents indicated that the Nigerian lawmakers earn perhaps one of the least salaries among legislators in the world, as against the notion that their pay was outrageous.
Apart from releasing global comparative figures drawn from nine countries, the Institute also gave a breakdown of what constitutes the monthly take-home pay of each Nigerian lawmaker.
Download the full document here: Salaries and allowances of legislators
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Nigerian Institute of Legislative Studies with its incomplete data aimed at favoring its sponsors failed to answer the key question namely what % those salaries represent of the national budget, the per capita income, as well as the # of employees supported by each grand salary.
Thanks for information accessibiity as secrecy breeds rumours
if you just run the number, yes it might look like they are not getting paid much. However by them getting all those allowance, it means they never touch their salaries. Nigeria elected official are getting everything paid for. 300k for newspaper, in these days of electronic media. we can’t do a comparison with countries like the US or UK. they are wealthy than Nigerian, and don’t have the level of poverty, corruption and sickness that Nigeria has. now you can also compare the value for the money being paid, right now, Nigerian’s are not getting the value.
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