Tag: Salary
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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…
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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…
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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 .…
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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…
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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’…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…