Tag: unpaid salaries
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Soldiers nitpick over alleged unpaid July salaries
Amid rising security challenges in the country, some personnel of the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Air Force, have condemned the delay by the federal government in paying their July salaries. The Abuja-based soldiers who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said they and their colleagues are unhappy with the Major General Muhammadu…
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Widows employed as sweepers obstruct Imo Govt House over unpaid salaries
Countless widows, on Thursday, obstructed the entrance gate to the Imo State Government House in Owerri in protest. The aggrieved women, under the aegis of the Imo Widow Sweepers Association, interrupted the flow of traffic around the Government House. They said the Governor Hope Uzodimma administration owed them six months’ salaries. The leader of the…
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NASS legislative aides protest unpaid salaries, other
The National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum (NASSLAF) on Wednesday protested the non-payment of their salaries since last year. The protesters registered their grievance by marching on the foyer of the National Assembly with placards and singing solidarity songs. They also complained about the Consolidated Legislative Aides Salary Structure, the non-payment of minimum wage and duty…
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Unpaid salaries: Blame FG if we shutdown varsities again – ASUU warns
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday accused the Federal Government of victimising its members and tactically avoiding the payment of salaries to its members for up to 10 months. It warned that its members might be called out soon for another strike, if the government failed to address the union’s grievances. In…
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Magistrate collapses at Ayade’s office during protest for unpaid salaries
Magistrate Richard Bassey on Tuesday collapsed at the gate of the governor’s office in Calabar during a protest over unpaid 24 months salary. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that 30 Magistrates dressed in their full regalia have been embarking on a peaceful protest at the governor’s office to drive home the demand for their accumulated salaries since…
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Senior lecturer commits suicide over 13-month unpaid salary in Edo
A principal lecturer in the Department of Adult Education of the defunct College of Education now Tayo Akpata University, Ekiadolor, Benin, Friday Orobator, has committed suicide over a 13-month unpaid salary. The senior lecturer, who was in his 50s and whose wife had just been delivered of a baby, hanged himself at his Obakhazbaye, Benin…
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ASUP petitions Abia govt. over 20 months unpaid salaries
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has sent a petition to the National Human Right Commission over 20 months unpaid salaries by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia. Mr Anderson Ezeibe, National President of ASUP, stated this in a letter addressed to the Executive Secretary of the commission and made available to newsmen on Sunday…
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Delta: 21 LGAs owing workers months of unpaid salaries
The Delta Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Mr Joyce Overah, says that 21 out of the 25 local governments in the state are still owing their workers months of unpaid salaries. Overah disclosed this in Asaba on Wednesday while presenting the stewardship of his ministry in the last one year during a news conference. He…
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Kogi govt denies late director, Soje committed suicide over unpaid salaries
The Kogi State Government says Mr. Edward Soje, the late director who recently committed suicide after his wife gave birth to triplets, was last paid salary in December 2016. The government, however, dispelled rumours that Soje took his life because he was being owed salaries. The Kogi State Head of Service, Deborah Ogunmola, in a…
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Unpaid salaries: Help! We break our fast with water, Nassarawa civil workers cry out
Civil servants in Nasarawa State on Friday said that non-payment of their salaries had forced them to break their ongoing Ramadan fast with only water. In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Keffi, the workers called on the government to pay them their three-months outstanding salaries and other entitlements to save their families…