The National Economic Council on Thursday, in Abuja, said it considered recommendations from the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission to pay N702bn as cost of living allowance to civil servants as part of intervention plans to mitigate the effects of the discontinuance of petroleum subsidy as announced on May 29, 2023.
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after the inaugural National Economic Council meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Thursday.
Mohammed also revealed that the intervention included a recommended sum ranging from N23.5bn to N45bn per month as a petroleum allowance for civil servants.
Thursday’s announcement came barely two weeks after President Bola Tinubu directed the governors to concretize various palliative structures to ease the attendant hardship from the petrol subsidy discontinuance.
According to him, “The NEC had received recommendations on the various ways and means that the country can use whatever increases that we have in the revenue to mitigate the impact that this is going to make on the lives of our workers.
Members of the committee included the Governor of Kebbi State as chairman; Anambra representing the South-East geopolitical zone; Governor of Benue, North-Central; Governor of Kaduna, North-West; Governor of Cross River, South-South; Oyo, South-West; and the Bauchi State Governor representing the North-East.
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