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  • Bayelsa suspends workers’ promotion increments, arrears

    Bayelsa suspends workers’ promotion increments, arrears

    The Bayelsa State Government has put on hold promotion and annual increments of civil servants in all ministries, department and agencies (MDAs).

    The government in a circular to all MDAs signed by the state’s acting Head of Service, Rev. Thomas Zidafamor said the directive should take effect from 2015.

    The document dated February 2, 2017 was among others addressed to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), all commissioners, permanent secretaries, the chief registrar and the clerk of the stage House of Assembly.

    Zidafamor in a circular, which was sighted by The Nation, also directed all accounting officers to expunge all such promotion and increment arrears from salary vouchers with effect from January 2017.

    He said the action was to enable the government meet up with the monthly wage bill in view of the dwindling financial resources of the state.

    “All permanent secretaries are expected to convey this directive to the parastatals and agencies of government under their ministries and too ensure that this directive is effectively implemented as you will be held responsible for any deviation from the content of this circular”, he said.

    He said directed the permanent secretaries or the accounting officers and the director, finance and supply to sign the nominal rolls, payment vouchers and attendance summary before submission.

    He said: “vouchers and related documents must be submitted not later than 10th day of the month while the monthly MDAs salary summary should be signed by the permanent secretary or head of department or agency not later than the 12th day of the month”, he said.

  • Niki Tobi: Eulogises pour in at valedictory court session

    Niki Tobi: Eulogises pour in at valedictory court session

    The late Retired Justice Niki Tobi of the Supreme Court has been described as an exceptional ambassador and a statesman par excellence, whose lifetime achievements should serve as a source of inspiration.

    Gov. Seriake Dickson stated this on Friday while paying tribute to the departed Tobi during a valedictory court session held in his honour at the State High Court in Yenagoa.

    He said that Bayelsa and the Ijaw nation are proud of the significant achievements and legacies left behind by the jurist.

    The governor described Tobi as a quintessential Ijaw man, who discharged his duties excellently in his lifetime.

    According to Dickson, the Ijaw nation grieves with the people of Esama in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta and as part of efforts to immortalise him, a befitting monument would be named after him in Bayelsa.

    Dickson, who prayed God to grant the soul of Justice Tobi eternal repose, said the government would continue to support the bereaved family to sustain his legacies for the sake of posterity.

    In her remarks, the State Chief Judge, Justice Kate Abiri, likened Justice Tobi to “a legal colossus, who bestrode the judicial space with an uncommon brilliance’’.

    Abiri said the late Justice Tobi was one of the greatest legal minds of the times, adding that the country would not forget him in a hurry.

    Eulogising Tobi, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Kemasuode Wodu, described the departed legal luminary as an ardent custodian of the law.

    Wodu said that Tobi was a distinguished and an outstanding jurist, who recorded a huge success in his chosen career.

    He said that Tobi rose to the pinnacle of his career by becoming a Professor of Law.

    “He was an apostle of hard work with sterling literary abilities and the legal profession would miss him,’’ Wodu said.