Nigeria: Govt, Health Workers Disagree On New Hazard Allowance

15 April 2021

The federal government and workers in the health sector yesterday failed to reach a consensus on the plan for an upward review of the N5,000 monthly hazard allowance for doctors and other health workers

At a meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries and Hazard Allowance for the health sector that held yesterday in Abuja, both government representatives and unions in the health sector, however, agreed that the N5,000 hazard allowance was obsolete and should be reviewed upwards.

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