BREAKING: Details Emerge As Tinubu Approves 300% Salary Rise

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

The announcement was made by the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday.

In June, the National Assembly approved a bill granting a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at both federal and state levels.

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This decision followed the consideration and adoption of an executive bill transmitted by the President, which aimed to establish improved salaries, allowances, and other 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.”

According to him, among the salient features of the Act include, “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.”

He characterized the President’s signing of the bill as a landmark achievement and a clear demonstration of his unwavering commitment to the welfare of Nigeria’s workforce.