DUTY TOUR ALLOWANCE

20001 - Duty tour allowance is granted to enable officers pay for lodging and feeding expenses during official tours. The rates applicable are as follows: -

Commissioners, Head of Service, Secretary to State Government = ₦20,000.00

Permanent Secretaries/Directors-General = ₦15,000.00

Directors, GL. 16 = ₦10,000.00

Officers on GL. 14 - 15 = ₦7,000.00

Officer on GL. 10 - 13 = ₦5,000.00

Officer on GL. 07 - 09 = ₦2,500.00

Officers on GL. 01 - 06 = ₦1,000.00

The allowance is not an emolument or an addition to an officer's salary. However, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Government that an officer has endangered his health by failing to provide himself with adequate boarding/lodging, he will be liable to face disciplinary action.

Not a right

20002 - Nothing in these Public Service Rules shall give any officer a right to duty tour allowance and the provisions of this chapter may at any time be revoked, altered, added to or amended at the discretion of the Government.

Transport Charges

20003 - The transport/air ticket and cost of local running should be determined departmentally depending on the nature of the tour and the prevailing transport charges.

Allowances payable only when official tours duly authorized

**20004 **- The payment of the above allowances should be made only in respect of official tours duly approved by the appropriate authority in each case.

Rates of personal rights do not in increase rate of duty tour allowance

20005 - Personal conversions of salary or any additions to salary not involving promotion from one grade to another, which brings an officer's salary into a high category (as quoted in Rule 20001) than that applicable to his colleagues in the same grade, do not make him eligible to receive Duty Tour Allowance at a rate higher than that for which his colleagues on normal salaries in the same grade are eligible.