NIgerian Ministers Travel Allowance Now N100,000 Daily

Amid calls for a needed increase in the N30,000 national minimum wage, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has disclosed that his and other ministers’ monthly salary is N942,000 after taxation and also that the travel allowance for ministers has recently been raised to N100,000 daily.

Ngige, who was speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, also said they don’t have allowances as ministers except duty allowance when they have to travel for work.

“My salary is N942,000 a month. My salary with my PA — gross total after tax — my feeding, my transport, the transport of one PA, the salary of my gardener, my cook, they are all consolidated. After heavy taxation, they pay me N942,000.

“Every minister you see, that is what it is; special advisers earn around that amount too. The allowances are not anything; we don’t have any allowances except if you travel. You can get duty tour allowance like every other public officer,” Ngige said.

He added that the travel allowance the ministers receive was recently reviewed alongside that of permanent secretaries among others.

“It was reviewed to N100,000 for a minister, and I think ministers of states, N75,000; permanent secretaries, N70,000, and down the line. Level one, everybody else’s own was reviewed, not only our own,” he said.

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