Tinubu Approves 300% Salary Increase For Judicial Officers

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, signed the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill into law.

This was confirmed by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.

In June, the National Assembly approved a bill that grants a 300% salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels.

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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.

The executive bill forwarded by the President was titled “A Bill for an Act to Prescribe the Salaries, Allowances and Fringe Benefits of Judicial Office Holders in Nigeria and for Related Matters”.

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.”

Lado said 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.”