According to reports, below is an alleged breakdown of senators’ salary and allowances in Nigeria.
Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50
Hardship Allowance: 50% of Basic Salary = N1,242,122.75.
Constituency allowance: 200% of BS = N4,968,509.00.
Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS = N7,452,736.50.
Newspaper allowance: 50% = N1,242,122.70.
Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37.
Recess Allowance: 10% = N248,424.55.
Accommodation: 200% = N4,968,509.00.
Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83.
Domestic Staff: 35% = N863,184.12.
Entertainment: 30% = N828,081.83.
Personal Assistance: 25% = N621,061.37.
Vehicle Maintenance Allowance: 75% = N1,863,184.12.
Leave Allowance : 10% = N248,424.55
One off payments (Severance gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50. Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of BS = N9,936,982.00.
Total per month = N29,479, 749.00. [$190,192]
Hmm… feel free to share your views on this development in the Comments section below.
Hahahaha. I laugh in French. I work at the National Assembly accts department. I don’t knw where you guys get your info from. But this is totally wrong. U only got the wardrobe allowance right. It’s totally wrong. Get your facts right
If you that those figures where wrong, why then you given us the right figures as you said that you work with the acct dept. To prove us wrong.
@ anonymous, u agree with d Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37. To u isn’t this much? Hw do u think d current vises will ever stop. It is d xces money they are using to finance militancy, Boko Haram, why wil our election not b ‘ do-or-die affair’ $ al d rest. Until our leaders have a rethink things wil continue to remain like this if not worse. May God help our country Nigeria
To prove him wrong ,WHY THEN DID YOU HIDE YOUR NAME ?
If u work there, provide the correct info and please kindly stop laughing in french. Do u sincerely believe that a wardrobe allowance of over 600, 000 serves the interest our country. That is cruel. People do genuine jobs and they are padi less than 20k a month and a senator who was elected by theses same people takes that same amount many times over just to buy babanriga. Absolute nonsense
festus may be rite,bc u cannot pay vehicle allw,accommodation allw,maintainace allw,leave allw,one off payment,furniture allw.etc in every month.they are paid once in every yr.we knw d senators pay is high,but not as high as be over blow above.pls always furnish nigerians wit accurate information.thank you
U’re also corrupt,why did u hide ur identity ?
even if u work with the accnt deprtmnt is not possible for u to knw the exact figures, do not under estimate a journalist.
I am currently laughing at the FG. Ask me why?
Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwuala recently told us that Nigeria’s debt is above one million dollars. So imagine where the salaries of these senators are reduced to 40 per cent. Won’t Nigeria be able to clear off the bill and still have enough to fix our infrastructure?
Again, why do they borrow money? Is it not to fix our economy? So, why are they sharing the money in the name of “salaries and allowances”? Must they be paid more than the teachers, lecturers and professors? In fact, why must a senator earn more than a teacher?
This is disgusting. Maybe until the youths march to Aso Rock and really rock that place, nothing will be done.
YES MY BROTHER JARE . Forgetting the TEACHERS who made THEM what THEY are TODAY .
The basics might be right but the take home pay @ the end of the month is very wrong. Nobody receives leave allowance @ the end of every month.
Oh,that is why they kill one another to get there. A professor does not even get such salary. Na wha for these leaders oh; & to think they said NO to paying just #19,000 to unemployed graduates,uhmmm.
If this infomation about d sanators salaries and allowances is anytin to go by, then I must say Nigeria as a country is in a deep mess and will continue to be until Nigerians resolves to break dis Evil YOKE……
I am jobless and hungry!
…and you expect them not to fight or even kill themselves over the position!
Those People of today. What you should know is, when you start the war you are planning by embezzling our money, you wont know live to see the End
Mr Anonymous, please do us all a favour and provide the correct salaries and allowances and stop laughing in french, I don’t think the breakdown above would be very far from the actual loot they take home every month. Funny thing is they don’t actually do anything other than make arguments which been carefully prepared for them by researchers who in turn would not be half as well paid . The most unfortunate situation is that, they make the laws that determine houw much they earn, it is therefore not likely that their earnings would be cut down anytime soon. I weep for my country and the bunch of looters who care nothing for the poor masses. Every day I see on TV stories of persons who require as little as 2million Naira for some surgery and they can’t get it… God help us.
Please can you be brave. Your catch line says ‘REVEALED’ and you are saying ‘alleged’ in the content. Which tells me there is no substance to this or proper investigation carried out. I am not down for rubbish stories that says ‘revealed, look, watch.’ Be more professional and do more investigation.
Accomodation, leave, recess, furniture allowances couldn’t be paid monthly it is just not possible, this figures are misleading Nigerians. Senators don’t earn dis much.
My frend accomodation,furniture,transportation,vehicle maintenance & so on r payed monthly.Its either harmonised or consilidated salary scale,wateva dez guyz r running d country dry & killing dis country.
Jst that if its true they will all account herafter 4 every penny spent cos Allah is watching every body
my friend stop this your allah allah thing, do something positive in your own little way. and dont even imagine 72 virgins cos it is not real
hkt
If sudan and some less resources endowed african nation will be given only 9jas NASS annual income as annual budget for 5 stratagic yrs, their patriotism will place them ahead of nigeria. Some families need atleast N500 to feed themselves daily yet it is far from them. Lets improve our common sense of integrity and love. Let our national anthem and pledge stand for what it is or we change it to conform to the present.
Funny enough, the unbelievable figures as salaries of a very few nigerians cannot stop them from blocking others and hungry for much more. God is still at work with every oath of office. Watch out!
After reading dis news, me and my friends are currently crying. They’ve killed us. 9ja. Youths, where are u? National youth councile whats happening? National association of Nigeria student where are u? N.L.C, are u sleeping? Once again i think we need to go out to the streets, block d roads with our barners, put flames on tires and say enough is enough
What we need do is to take our destiny in our hand, let there be a revolution, see what egypt, and other country are doing, let us not be afraid of war, bcuz, if u need peace u must first fight a war, it only thru war that we can settle dis issue, I am not saying war is the final solution, but let dere be a serious protest 4 we to determine our constitution by ourselves and not by selected few
This is very very bad on our leaders part. Our leaders re suppose to be serving us and not killing us. How re things suppose to be going well when they(so called-leaders) don’t have conscience, don’t have shame, don’t have fear of GOD. They preach with one mouth n be doing different thing. With the level of unemployment..wow!! No infrastructures.
Nelson mandela is being treated in his own country(south-africa), our leaders in this country fly abroad for every medical check. What morals are our leaders teaching the youth..just negative things. They re not accountable to anybody.
Their ideology of end justifying the means instead of the means justifying the ends will show you the kind of leadership we ve in this country. Left to me, all our leaders should be killed and our constitution should be rewritten. They should have it in our constitution, for every stealing and every lie must be punishable by hanging and there won’t be anything like adjourning. It will go a long way to teach anybody vying for a public position that u must be honest and that you are not above the law.
Our leaders should on no account fly abroad for any medical issues, if you caught, the person must resign immediately. Their children must attend their school within the country.
Ifeanyi(czar) opebi, lagos
No matter how poorly researched this piece is, it is obvious to the average Nigerian youth that our legislators have become boa constrictors stiffling and slowly killing this country.
Hummmnmmmmm. May God help. Us
A civil servant on grade level 14 cant even earn w@ dey earn in a mnth in a whole yr, so y wont civil servants steal n neglect their duty. If we refuse to act as masses dey wil continue to do injustice to us wit their sharing formular.
U can imagine wht 1 man recieves in a month, and u expect corruption to stop in dis conutry? No way! Wht am i saying mehn dat cash is much,we knw evry body wil eat 4rm were he/she works,but dis is much. Pls our government shld do something about dis.
Its good we make a means to question FG about this salary & commend to FG for them to cut down senate, reps & other salary & pay every 18yrs citizen 10k per month
This is jungle journalism…..dis can neva be the truth,ow can someone be earnin furniture allowance,motor vehicle loan,gratuity every month? Dis social media is fast destroying journalism as a profession.pls quote the source of ur info.
This is just the place to be.
uhn,uhn! Oh Allah,pls intervene.
If this is true then â„“ĚŠ say we re fnshd in diz con3 wot anoyz me most is No one we re trust anymur evn the so called oppositn nd hunman rght activist re only fghtn 4 their selfsh reasonz as they ve failed in all asept nd they ve nt in anyway shw any signz of dffrnce btw dem nd the pple @d centre 1can evn fink they wll do wrst if gvn d chanz. Cuz they ve appreciable numba of legislators amng diz pple nd they ve nt in any day fght diz abnomaliz buh rada prefa 2play politics on us all. God wll judge yu guyz 1day.
If you claim it’s not true, it means you have the true figures. Validate you claim by providing the right figures.
Naija youths please too much talk and no action can’t help our situation. Irrespective of the authenticity of the post placed here we all can see what is going on, we have eyes and ears. The solution is what we should be looking for, we all recognise the problem. Me personally am tired of all these complainin. Action speaks louder any day/time chikeena!
I knw a local govt chairman in lagos and I knw how much he collects, who told u that they can’t be paid that amount? To me, these figures r way too correct
We need to. Act fast.
Mr anonymous, if u agree wt wardrobe allowance, it means other figures ar perfectly correct. As an acctnt , wardrobe allownc is usually d least of incentivs in most org & I know d nat assembly cnt b an exemptn. If u r a patriotic nija, den tells us d actual salary under ur anonymous identificatn.
Since it is obvious dat oda allowances can’t be earned monthly except Basic Salary, it’s only rational to multiply (BS) 2,484,245.50 x 12(months) whc equals N29,801,946.00. Now add Total allowances N26,995,503.50 + annual salary N29,801,946.00 = N56,806,449.50. Correct or nt we can argue al we care, it doesnt boda dem. As a mata of fact, al d abov figures is notin compare 2 wat dey embezzle. We must undastnd dt nt until we apply ourselvs 4 CHANGE, notin CHANGES 4 us. Revolution is d way out, truly CAN’T WE?
Yes my brother. I quit agree with you, but don’t you think that 1 millionNaira a week is too much as compared to 18k per month? or where do you work?
Sanusi lamido said it som time ago that 25% of our anual budget goes to d remuneration of our national assembly nd d senate called for his arrest
Mmmmmmm pls i need a senator husband
Wot must of us fail to realise is this, No average senator less than a company owner and we knw wot our directors earn not to talk of chairman of companies who is seen as alpha & Omega of the institution, They’re r used to extra vagant spending, they’re being in affluent of spending, these r the brackets of those that finds themselves at the corridor of powers in our country. To them they’re sacrificing fr u. If u there raise an eye brow they’re tell u h’w much is that$160, 0000. They’re say is still small compare to wot the country earns. It is the govt we av to blame, fr allowing our election institution to be monetry induce, celebrating money instead of what individual has in stock as in quality. God help us
Thank you sir,even if it is not the actual amount it will be closer to it. They are all theives.
This materialism won’t get this country anywhere,let our leaders wear a thinking cap.Professionals are working for peanut,the privileged few are leaving the country for abroad while a senators’ Montly salary can pay a medical doctor for ten years .what an irony!!!
All these senators’ defenders, I wonder whether you are not in this country when Prof. Dora Akunyili made it open to them that they consume 60% of the nations budget. They defended it and didn’t review their salaries. You may have clues to outweigh this guy’s revelation or whatever but the truth remains that those guys are eating big and bigger.
We are doomed dats y all their kids were sent abroad to study wt our public money our polytechnics were on strike over 2months and nobody is talking abt it b/c their kids ar not there is time 4 REVoLuTIon period
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