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  • 300 graduates dump Ganduje’s job over meager N35,000 salary

    About 300 graduates on the payroll of the Kano State Internal Revenue Service have dumped their appointments as revenue collectors due to the paltry thirty five thousand Naira (N35,000) they receive as salaries.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that this is coming barely three months after their employment. The KIRS had recruited a total of 765 graduates as revenue collectors.

    The graduates maintained that the KIRS promised them better salaries and convenient working environment, thus making them to resign their former appointments which according to them was better compared to what they are now offered at KIRS.

    Speaking with news men on condition of anonymity, one of the aggrieved graduates said the KIRS failed to fulfill some of the promises made to them.

    Referring to the service salary scale, he disclosed that majority of them were influenced to abandon their earlier engagement and embrace the tax generation job but only to be remunerated, with N35, 000 monthly.

    The source further revealed that following the autonomy attained by the KIRS, the Service offered them a better salary package than what they were earning in their former firms of engagement but sadly ended up being paid N35,000 as graduates.

    However, in his reaction, the KIRS Public Relations Officer, PRO, explained that the Executive Chairman of the KIRS, Sani Abubakar Dambo is out of the state for Lesser Hajj, insisting that he (the chairman) will address the issue when he returns.

     

  • Buhari’s govt committed to prompt payment of salaries, pension – Presidency

    The President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government has assured Nigerians that it remains uncompromisingly committed to the prompt payment of salaries and pensions of its workforce and pensioners across the country.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the assurance is coming amid pressure to improve spending on capital projects to bridge the infrastructure deficit in the country. t

    The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, made this known on Monday in Abuja at the public presentation of the 2017 Appropriation Act.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the 2017 budget has a total spending estimation of N7.44 trillion, with N2.99 trillion allocated to recurrent expenditure, N2.36 trillion on capital expenditure and N1.66 trillion on debt servicing.

    Statistics given by the minister showed that N1.88 trillion, which was 63 per cent of the recurrent expenditure component of the budget, would be spent on personnel cost and N281.1 billion, representing 9.4 per cent, would be spent on pension.

    This shows that a total of N2.16 trillion would be spent on salaries and pension alone.

    Other aspect of the recurrent expenditure framework includes Overheads, N219.84 billion and N138.7 billion, for Service-wide Votes.

    Also, the government plans to spend N76.7 billion on Presidential Amnesty Programme, while the running cost of the special intervention programme is expected to gulp N350 billion.

    Udoma also said that the Federal Government plans to spend N40 billion as refund to special accounts.

    However, he failed to mention names of the accounts and the purpose intended.

    “We have to manage our recurrent expenditure and at the same time, we cannot afford to have any retrenchment.

    “Consequently, we must meet our personnel expenses. We have to make sure we provide adequately for salaries and pensions.

    “For other items of expenditure such as Overheads, we will only meet those components that are vital and others will be managed down because it is very important that we find the resources to meet our capital expenditure,’’ he said.

    According to the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, N210 billion was needed monthly to finance Federal Government Personnel Cost.

    She said at the moment, government barely made enough to meet its monthly obligation such as Personnel Cost, Service Debt and finance necessary capital projects.

    Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting for May, shared N418.9 billion between the federal, states and local government areas from the federation account.

    The Federal Government’s share from that amount was N163.9 billion.

  • Kogi civil servant returns N1.7million paid in excess of salary

    A civil servant in Kogi, Mrs Husseina Mohammed has returned the sum N1, 780,500 paid in excess of her March salary to the coffers of the state government.

    Mohammed said this on Friday in Lokoja while on a courtesy visit to the Director – General, Bureau of Information and Grassrrots Mobilisation, Alhaji Abdulkareem Abdulamlik .

    She said that she received an alert from her bank in the afternoon of May 21 and discovered that a huge sum had been credited in her favour.

    Mohammed said that she immediately called the attention of her husband to the development and a decision was taken to return the money to the coffers of the government.

    The civil servant, who works at the state Teaching Service Commission, said that she started the process of returning the money back to government on May 22, saying that the money was paid into the government account with the Lokoja branch of the Zenith Bank Plc.

    She then handed over the bank teller and other documents used in paying back the money into the government bank account to the Director General

    Mohammed praised Gov. Yahaya Bello for paying her salary up till March, 2017, saying that she was not in any way affected by just concluded staff screening and verification exercise.

    She, however, pleaded with the state government to reciprocate her good gesture by paying the outstanding 15 month salary arrears of her husband, Mr Yakubu Mohammed.

    The civil servant said that the salary of her husband was being withheld for the discrepancy in his age declaration, saying that the discrepancy had since been rectified.

    In his response, the Director- General commended Mohammed for her honesty.

    He said with people like her in the society, Nigeria was sure of winning the ongoing war against corruption.

    The Director -General urged other civil servants and residents of the state to emulate Mrs. Mohammed.

    He said that her good conduct would not go unrewarded, adding that her exemplary conduct would be recorded for generation yet unborn to learn and emulate.

    Abdulmalik also reiterated the resolve of Gov. Yahaya Bello to carry the restructuring of the state civil service to the end.

     

     

     

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  • Kogi Govt not owing workers’ salaries, says Governor’s aide

    Mr Gbenga Olorunpomi, the Senior Special Assistant on Electronic Media to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, has said that the State Government was not owing salaries of civil servants.

    Olorunpomi told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that the government had paid the salaries of all workers cleared by the recently concluded civil servants verification exercise.

    “This government came to power at the time civil servants were on strike; the issue that led to the strike was that of the salaries owed to the workers for many months.

    “At that time, all schools in the state were shut down; the government of Gov. Yahaya Bello then decided that the only way to tackle this was to do total civil service verification.

    “In the process, we found out that the state had plenty issues; about 83,000 personnel were withdrawing salaries from the state and this is a state that is barely 25 years old.

    “So there was need to do an audit to find out how we got to the situation where there were more senior than junior level civil servants; it was lopsided,” he said.

    According to the aide, the issues necessitated the civil service reform which is part of the five cardinal programmes of the government.

    The others, he said, are security, education, job creation and agriculture.

    Olorunpomi said the exercise had been completed and the state now has a civil service that the government can manage.

    “All persons that were cleared by whatever committee that was set up at the time were paid.

    “We got our bailout fund to do this, we used the resources that came in from FAC allocation and we have been paying salaries since then.

    “Whatever noise we are hearing now is either by those who are yet to be cleared or those who have benefited from the system of inefficiency in the past.

    “Anyone who has been certified cleared has been paid salary.

    “To prove our point, we published the names and amounts paid to all workers, ministries, departments and agencies in the state’s website, www.kogistate.gov.ng.

    “The website will show you all the amount of monies paid to workers as salaries, pension and other entitlements since the inception of this government in January 2016 to date.

    “As I speak with you now, Kogi state is moving ahead to a better future,” he said.

  • May Day: We’ll clear 4months salary arrears, Ajimobi assures Oyo workers

    Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has promised to spare no effort in ensuring that the state clears the four months outstanding salaries of workers in the state.

    He made the disclosure in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr Yomi Layinka on Sunday, ahead of the commemoration of 2017 Workers’ Day celebration.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the state owes the workers four months salaries, having cleared the backlog till December 2016.

    Ajimobi urged the workers to continue to put in their best and key into the state government’s reform agenda aimed at enhancing productivity.

    “I congratulate the entire workforce in the state, including those in the private and informal sectors.

    “This year’s workers day has provided another opportunity for you all to take stock and assess your performance.

    “I can say without any equivocation that workers in the state are among the very best you can find anywhere in the country.

    “But, for the few yet to embrace the new order of hard work, accountability, dedication and commitment, I urge you join the trend,” he said.

    He said that the government was exploring many opportunities to enhance the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state, promising that no effort would be spared to clear the four months salary arrears.

    “No doubt, times are hard because of the pervading poor state of the economy.

    “I feel your pains and I’m optimistic that we shall soon sing a new song of prosperity and abundance. May none of you be missing by that time,.” he said.

    Ajimobi prayed for a hazard-free 2017 for workers in the state as the year enters the second quarter, and that God would give them good health to celebrate more workers’ days to come.

     

     

     

     

  • NCS abolishes disparity between HND/BSc holders, pegs both on GL 08

    The Comptroller-General of Customs (rtd) Col. Hameed Ali, has announced that HND holders on salary Grade Level GL 07 in the service are automatically moved to salary GL 08 like their BSc. counterparts.

    Ali said this during the decoration of the newly promoted senior customs officers on Monday in Abuja.

    Nine officers were decorated – six of them Comptrollers; two Deputy Comptrollers and one Assistant Comptroller.

    Ali noted that officers in the inspectorate cadre on salary GL 08 and above were to align to the appropriate rank in the superintendent cadre.

    “This is expected to boost the morale of officers and eliminate confusion in the seniority of officers”, he said.

    Ali said that the service had promoted 3,487 senior officers.

    “From this moment things have changed therefore; you are now required to take up greater responsibilities.

    “All the promoted officers have worked hard to achieve this; in the past, officers were promoted when they are not supposed to.

    “Merit is the key to promotion; diligent and hard work is the key to success.

    “We have to get ‘godfathereeism’ out of Customs before we leave, ” Ali added.

    Ali said by June this year, officers would commence full training at the Customs Command, Gwagwalada, FCT.

     

  • Trump donates 1st quarter salary to national park

    U.S. President Donald Trump has donated his first-quarter salary of 78, 333.32 dollars to National Park Service, White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, announced on Monday.

    Spicer said the money represented Trump’s entitlements for the quarter.

    TheNewsGuru.com recalls that during campaign, Trump vowed that he would not take the presidency’s 400,000 dollars annual salary if elected.

    The president promised to donate the entire salary to charity and he repeated that promise after his victory in November.

    The White House press secretary said “this is every penny that the president received for this quarter, according to Constitution.

    “After receiving his first quarter paycheck of 78,333 dollars, the amount is cut by the Treasury for the pay period that began with the Jan. 20 inauguration.

    “The president consulted with White House counsel and decided to give it to the National Park Service.

    “So, the president is donating every penny.”

    Spicer then presented the cheque to Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke.

    After receiving the cheque, Zinke said “we are going to dedicate it to infrastructure in our nation’s battlefields.”

    Born on June 14, 1946, Donald Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States of America.

    Prior to entering politics, he was a successful businessman and television personality.

     

  • Court sacks Senator Bassey, orders immediate refund of certificate, salaries

    A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to immediately, withdraw the Certificate of Return given to the Senator representing Akwa-Ibom North East district, Albert Bassey Akpan.

    In a judgment delivered on Monday, the court asked INEC to issue a fresh Certificate of Return to Hon. Bassey Etim, whom the court established, as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the December 2014 primary election.

    The judge equally directed Senator Bassey Albert, to vacate his seat and ordered the President of the Senate, to swear in Bassey Etim, as the Senator for Uyo Senatorial district.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Hon. Etim, a former member of the House of Representatives, dragged Senator Akpan, the PDP and INEC before the Federal High Court, Uyo, challenging the nomination of the Senator, even though it was glaring that he convincingly won the party’s primaries.

    Consequently, the court faulted the primary that produced Senator Akpan as flag bearer of the PDP and the subsequent election that made him Senator.

    The court also made a definite order in the pre-election matter, by directing Senator Akpan to refund all salaries and entitlements collected so far as a Senator representing the constituency.

  • Ekiti civil servant commits suicide over unpaid salary, accumulated debts

    Ekiti civil servant commits suicide over unpaid salary, accumulated debts

     

    Tragedy struck in Ao Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Thursday as a civil servant Tope Afolayan, said to be on Level 12, committed suicide over unpaid debt.

    Afolayan, a native of Oye Ekiti, worked in the office of the Accountant General of the State until the incident happened last Thursday.

    He is survived by a wife, who is a teacher at a public school in Ado Ekiti and three children. Afolayan was also a final year Law student at the Ekiti State University (EKSU).

    The deceased was also said to be an interpreter at a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) branch in Ekute area of Ado Ekiti.

    His colleague, who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Sunday disclosed that Afolayan committed suicide by hanging himself in the ceiling of his house, located on Peace Avenue, Olorunda, Ado Ekiti.

    Afolayan, who has since been buried, did not leave any suicide note before taking his life.

    He was, however, said to have consistently complained of failure to pay his debts because of the non-payment of arrears of salaries owed government workers.

    A source said: “Although he didn’t leave any suicide note before hanging himself, he had been very moody and heartbroken for a couple of weeks before the incident happened.

    “He had been complaining about the debts he owed which he was unable to defray because of the arrears of salaries. In fact, he was among the last batch of applicants for car loan but his name did not come out.

    “We are shocked by Tope’s death because nobody thought he would go to that extent, we are still mourning his death.”

    Police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi confirmed the incident which, according to him, was reported at New Iyin Road Police Station in Ado Ekiti.

     

  • Kwara teachers take to fasting, praying over unpaid salaries

    Thousands of teachers in public primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Kwara say they have embarked on fasting and prayer to ensure payment of their six months’ salary arrears by state government.

    The Deputy Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Alhaji Toyin Salihu, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in llorin on Monday.

    Salihu, who also the Principal of Sheikh AbdulKadir College, llorin, said that the teachers’ action was for God’s intervention for the payment of their salary arrears.

    He said that though the fasting and prayers were voluntary for both Christians and Muslim teachers, it would continue until God accepts their request.

    The NUT Deputy Chairman said that the government had commenced full monthly payment for the teachers’ salary, but that they were yet to receive their six months’ salary arrears.

    Salihu said that the unpaid six months arrears had added to the untold hardship being experienced by the teachers and their relations.

    Effort by NAN to speak with the Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Ademola Banu on the issue proved abortive.

    NAN correspondent sent text message to Banu and visited his office, for his comment on the issue but he did not respond.

    Normal academic activities were, however, in progress in some of the primary and junior secondary schools NAN visited in some parts of llorin, the state capital.

    Teachers in public primary and junior secondary schools embarked on strike in 2016 over unpaid several months of salaries.