BREAKING; Tinubu approves 300% salary rise for judicial officers

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

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

Recall that in March, Present Tinubu sent a bill titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in Nigeria and for related matters’ seeking to amend the salaries of judicial officers to the House of Representatives for consideration.

It was that in June, the National Assembly approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels. According to Lado, “This extraordinary move underscores Mr President’s absolute prioritization of the welfare of Nigerian workers above all else just like he did when he recently put on hold an ongoing Federal Executive Council meeting to assent to the new National Minimum Wage Bill of N70,000.

The new Act “prescribes salaries, allowances, etc., for Judicial Officers to reflect the changing realities and consequentially amend the provisions of the Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc.), Act, No.6, 2002 (as amended) to delete the provisions relating to Judicial Office Holders. The prescription of salaries, allowances, and other benefits for Judicial Officers.

The amendment of Certain Political, Public, and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc.) Act, No.6, 2002 (as amended) which provides for the deletion of provisions relating to Judicial Office Holders from the aforementioned act.”