The chief justice of Nigeria, CJN,
federal judicial officers, and state judicial officers have in the last
one year guzzled a total sum of N33.47 billion as emoluments and other
allowances, checks by the Economic Confidential has revealed.
The report obtained and computed by the
Economic intelligence magazine showed the annual salaries, regular and
non-regular allowances of 934 judicial officers in the country,
including the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
These include: vehicle maintenance and
fuel, personal assistants, domestic staff, entertainment and utilities
allowances. Others are; hardship allowance, outfit and newspapers
allowances respectively.
A careful
observation of the report showed that the chief justice of Nigeria has
an annual salary of N3.36 million and like the president of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, to be provided with vehicle maintenance and
fueling, domestic staff, entertainment, utilities and newspapers.
Furthermore, the CJN has 25 percent of
his annual basic salary reserved for personal assistant and outfit each
or its equivalent of N840,993.13 respectively an half of his annual
salary as hardship allowance which amounts to N1,681,986.25.
However, accommodation and furniture
will be provided for the CJN, while annual leave, severance gratuity and
vehicle loan which is optional will be 10%, 300% and 400% respectively.
His duty tour allowance within Nigeria is settled at N50,000 per night,
while that of overseas or Estacode amounts to $2000.00 per night.
Justices of the Supreme Court and the
President of the Court of Appeal have the same annual salary of N2.47
million each, while Justice of the Court of Appeal, Chief Judge of
Federal High Court, Chief Judge of the FCT, Judge of the Federal High
Court, President of the National Industrial Court, Grand Khadi of the
FCT Sharia Court of Appeal, President FCT Customary Court of Appeal,
Chief Judge of States, Grand Khadi state Sharia Court of Appeal and
President state Customary Court of Appeal all have N1.99 million each a
annual salary.
Furthermore, Judges of the Federal High
Court, National Industrial Court, FCT High Court, State High Courts, FCT
Sharia Court of Appeal, FCT Customary Court of Appeal, Khadi state
Sharia Court of Appeal and State Customary Court of Appeal all have
N1.80 million each as annual salary.
All the Judges in the country apart from
the Chief Justice of Nigeria, have 75% of their annual salaries as
Vehicle maintenance and fueling, 25% for Personal Assistant, 50% as
hardship allowance, 75% for domestic staff, 45% for entertainment.
Others are: 30% of their annual salaries as for utilities, 25% for
outfit and 15% for newspapers.
As for non-regular allowances, except
the CJN, all judges have 200% for accommodation once a year, 300% of
annual salary for furniture, 10% for annual leave, 300% as severance
gratuity and 400% for vehicle loan which is however optional.
All the Justices of the Supreme Court
and President of the Court of Appeal are entitled to N35,000.00 as duty
tour allowance per night within the country, while their Estacode is
$1300 per night when they travel out of the country.
Also, justices of the Court of Appeal,
Chief Judge of Federal High Court, Chief Judge of the FCT, Judge of the
Federal High Court, President of the National Industrial Court, Grand
Khadi of the FCT Sharia Court of Appeal, President FCT Customary Court
of Appeal, Chief Judge of States, Grand Khadi state Sharia Court of
Appeal and President state Customary Court of Appeal all have N30,000 as
duty tour allowances each within the country and $1,100 as estacode.
Other judges outside the above are
entitled to N25,000.00 as duty tour allowances per night within the
country and $800 for estacode when they travel out of the country per
night.
Please see the table in the attachment and this link: HERE.
Economic Confidential is a sister publication of PRNigeria
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