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  • 22 state governors owing workers salaries

    22 state governors owing workers salaries

    Secretary General of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), Comrade Issa Aremu, has expressed concern over non payment of workers salaries by many state governors.

    Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna at the NUTGTWN meeting, Aremu described the development as a wage theft, wage robbery and economic crime.

    Aremu who is the Vice President of the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) said for about three months now, 22 state governors are delaying or refusing to pay salaries but paid the delegates during the just concluded primary elections across the states.

    “We see that delay in payment of salaries as wage theft, wage robbery. It is actually an economic crime because Nigeria labour law says thou shall pay the worker as at when due. In fact by 22nd of every month you must have pay the workers fully.

    “We never heard of any delegate being owed a single penny during the primary elections, but they cannot get money to pay the workers. In fact, some of the delegates even bought new cars and properties after the primaries because they money they got in just few days is much more than what workers earn in many months. The governors should go to the place they got they money to pay delegates and settle the workers’ salaries ,” he said.

    He also said the NUTGTWN has succeeded in negotiating a 15% increase in wages for its members, making it a 35% increase in the last four years.

    “This shows that the process of collecting bargaining is working in the private sector and we will like to recommend this process for the public sector because most of their crisis is on the increase of wages and salaries which has been causing endless strikes and unfavourable industrial actions,” he added.

  • Civil servants yet to get Oct, Nov, Dec salaries

    Civil servants yet to get Oct, Nov, Dec salaries

    The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) is spoiling for a fight with the Federal Goverment over the no-payment of October, November and December salaries.

    Its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, told reporters in Lagos, that the government should use the N9.2 billion earmarised for stores to pay the salaries.

    “As we write, information reaching the union from informed quarters indicates that about 30 ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) will not pay December 2014 salaries to their employees. It is very unfortunate that since October 2014, the Federal Ministries of Agriculture, Education, Works, Labour and Productivity as well as a host of other MDAs have not paid salaries to their workers,” he regretted.

    Lawal, who lamented that the reality on ground was that thousands of civil servants and their dependants would celebrate this year’s Christmas and New Year in sorrow, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene on the matter and ensure that thousands of civil servants are paid their October, November and December salaries before the festivity  to put smile on their faces.

    “We call on the government to use the N9.2 billion earmarked to buy stoves for rural women to offset the October and November salary as well as that of December 2014. We cannot understand how N9.2 billion would be spent on stoves while workers who toil daily to keep the wheels of Government functioning cannot be paid their meagre salary,” he said.

    The labour leader recalled that last year, more than 40 MDAs could not pay December salaries to their workers and when the union raised the alarm, government officials were quick to deny the development prompting the association to publish the names of the MDAs that were involved in the non-payment of salary saga.

    According to him, based on this sad experience of last year, one would have expected that serious steps would have been taken to ensure that the ugly scenario did not repeat itself.

  • Osun deputy governor pleads with teachers over salaries delay

    Osun deputy governor pleads with teachers over salaries delay

    The Osun State deputy governor, Chief Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori,  has pleaded with teachers to show understanding over the delay in payment of their  salaries.

    Speaking in Osogbo, the state capital while flagging off the distribution of instructional and ICT materials for Elementary and Middle Schools, she blamed the delay on consistent reduction in monthly federal allocation accrued to the state in the last fourteen months.

    Items distributed include, 30 sets of computers, training materials and packets of chalk.

    However, the deputy governor promised a new lease of life for teaching and non- teaching staff in the state public primary and secondary schools.

    She restated  the government’s commitment to the welfare of the workforce in the public schools.

    According the deputy governor, who is also the Commissioner for Education, investment in workers in the public schools, no doubt, will sustain the growth of the state education sector.

    The deputy governor, who described the distribution of the materials as symbolic, assured that it will be a continuous exercise which she said “was designed to make Osun public education a model to other states in the federation.”

    Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the Osun State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Fatai Kolawole, said the provision of functional education is a key performance index of the Aregbesola administration.

    According to him: “It is not surprising that throughout the first term of this government, Governor Aregbesola touched all the ingredients of educational tripod upon which teaching-learning is anchored. These are the child, classroom environment and teachers.”

  • Lagos doctors plead for payment of salaries

    Lagos doctors plead for payment of salaries

    Doctors in the employ of Lagos State on Sunday staged a peaceful rally at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja to appeal for the payment of  their salaries.
    The doctors’ body, Medical Guild said the state government should temper justice with mercy to waive its “no work no pay rule”.

    It said the decision has left its member heartbroken because of unpaid salaries during strike.
    Its chairman, Dr Biyi. Kufo alleged that doctors were owed salary for the period it joined the Nigerian Medical  Association (NMA) to embark on national strike in April and May of 2012 and September this year when Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) broke out in the country. “The government said we didn’t participate but we were at work and our members were part of the volunteers who treated those who were isolated,” he said.
    Secretary, NMA Lagos State branch, Dr Babajide Saheed said the state  government did not apply the same rule when the Judiciary and teacher went on strike.

    “We consider this selective justice. A father should never treat his children differently.  There should be equality, fairness and justice,”  he noted.
    He said doctors consider the manner the state is handling the situation as a form of harassment.
    He appealed to the good people of the state to prevail on the government to have a rethink and do the needful, which is to pay doctors’ outstanding salaries.

  • World’s major football leagues: Nigeria ranks 34 in average salaries

    World’s major football leagues: Nigeria ranks 34 in average salaries

    The Premier League is by far the richest league in the world, with the 20 clubs now earning an average of around £155 million per season. This is underpinned by a domestic TV deal with Sky and BT worth £1bn each year, overseas TV deals in 212 countries bringing in £733 million a year and assorted other highlights, near-live and clip deals bringing in hundreds of millions more.

    Premier League footballers earn £2.3million a year each on average, or £43,717 a week, giving them wages almost 60 per cent bigger in 2014 than their closest earnings rivals in Germany’s Bundesliga, an exclusive Sportsmail study of football leagues around the world has revealed.

    Players in Germany’s top division earn £1.46m a year on average, or £28,011 a week, with players in Italy’s Serie A next best remunerated on £1.3m a year (£25,263 a week), followed by those in Spain’s La Liga on £1.2m a year (£23,327 a week).

    France’s Ligue 1 follows La Liga, with players averaging £988,000 a year, then the Russian Premier League is next on £902,000 before a drop to the only other league where players earn more than £500,000 a year – Brazil’s top division, where average yearly pay is £583,000.

    Players in England’s Championship are next, earning £486,000 on average, a staggering sum for a second tier – and higher than most top divisions around the world. The Sportsmail study has considered 34 leagues from across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia.

    Players in Major League Soccer, where Frank Lampard will star next year for Sheikh Mansour’s New York City FC, are earning an average of £135,945 in 2014 – or £2,614 a week.

    That puts them in 22nd place of the 34 leagues, where the bottom three slots are occupied by Croatia’s Prva League and the top divisions in South Africa and Nigeria.

    The average annual player wage in Croatia of £45,500 is roughly the same as the average weekly wage in the Premier League.

    In South Africa the average annual pay is £33,659 a year and in Nigeria, where domestic football has been in crisis, it is just £6,776 a year, or £130 a week.

    The Russian Premier League pays the sixth best wages, with players earning an average of £17,338 a week

     

    Culled from Dailymail

  • Strike looms in Edo tertiary institutions over salaries

    Academic activities in Edo State tertiary institutions may be grounded, following the failure of the government to pay the 16 months salary arrears owed workers.

    This arose from differentials in the implementations of the salary structure of the CONPCASS and CONTEDISS from July 2009 to October 2010.

    It was learnt that the decisions by the Coalition of Unions of State Owned Tertiary Institutions to toe the path of strike was informed by failed attempts after several correspondence and meeting with the representatives of the government to meet the demands of the institutions.

    Workers of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma have had their arrears paid by the government.

    The aggrieved workers also frowned at the inadequate funding, irregularity in the payment of salaries, decay and dilapidation of infrastructures and non- accreditation of some courses in the institutions.

    In a letter dated July 16th chronicling their demands to the governor through the Commissioner for Special Duties and Establishment and copied the Commissioners for Education and Agriculture, signed by the President of the union, Comrade Fred Omonuwa and Secretary, Comrade M. Imherion, they threatened that if their demands were not met within 21 days “the unions may be left with no option than to resume their suspended strike.”

    The letter reads “For over two years now tertiary institutions have been trying to ensure that the 16 months salaries owed workers of these institutions arising from the differentials in the implementations of the salary structure of CONPCASS and CONTEDISS from July 2009 to October 2010 are paid.

    “Suffice to say that several correspondence had been made between the unions and the government with a view to paying this arrears, particularly when our sister institution, Ambrose Ali University, (AAU) Ekpoma had its arrears paid by the government. On several occasions the unions have had to call off industrial actions as a mark of solidarity with the Comrade Governor.

    “If government is not sure about the sincerity of the various management in respect of their inability to pay monthly salaries and other entitlement of workers as at when due, she has the right to investigate the authenticity or otherwise of the claims of the management.”

  • Okon: NFF owes me two years salaries

    Okon: NFF owes me two years salaries

    All may not be well with the Super Falcons of Nigeria ahead of the 2014 Africa Women Championship as head coach Edwin Okon has claimed to be owed as much as two-year salary.

    He said: “Since August 2012 when I led the Falconets to the World Cup where we came fourth, up till today, I’m yet to get a dime as salary from the NFF.

    “Every time I go to the office to complain, they will say there is no money. At a time I learned that the Federal Government gave the federation some money to pay Keshi and other national team coaches, but up till today my story is still the same,” he told reporters in Abuja.

    The Rivers Angels coach who in 2011 signed a four-year contract with the NFF to coach the Falconets was last year promoted to the senior women national team, the Super Falcons  – albeit on an interim capacity after the resignation of erstwhile coach Kadiri Ikhana who failed do well with the team.

    Nigeria’s Super Falcons are drawn alongside hosts Namibia, Cote d’Ivoire and Zambia in the Group A of African Women’s Championship, which kicks off on October 11.

    The top three teams from the championship will qualify for the 2015 FIFA Women’sWorld Cup in Canada.

    The Nigerian ladies will also be looking to redeem themselves at the tournament after they finished fourth in the last edition of the biennial tournament, their worst-ever finish in the history of the African Women Championship.

  • Players’ Salaries : LMC clears seven new clubs

    Players’ Salaries : LMC clears seven new clubs

    • Pillars, Abia Warriors, Bayelsa Utd get second installment payment

    The League Management Company (LMC) has said seven new clubs have been certified to have met requirements on minimum wage for players following their submission of proof of salary payment document as directed by the league body.

    The Chief Operating Officer of LMC, Salihu Abubakar disclosed this yesterday.

    The seven clubs that received clearance as at close of business on Friday, according to Abubakar, include Heartland FC, Sunshine Stars, Enyimba International and Warri Wolves.

    Others are El-Kanemi Warriors, Rangers International and Lobi Stars.

    Abubakar also informed that the three clubs, Kano Pillars, Abia Warriors and Bayelsa United that were earlier certified to have met the proof of compliance, have now been paid the second installment of the basic award.

    All the 20 clubs of the Glo Premier League at the start of the season received N10m each from the LMC as the first installment of the basic award and the LMC had said they could receive more in the course of the season if they are found to have complied with requirements.

    The LMC has also been paying an enhanced honorarium of all match officials covering their hotel accommodation and travel costs which represents additional expenses the league body relieved the clubs from since the 2012/13 season.

    Abubakar said other clubs will also receive their basic awards as soon as comprehensive verification of their documents are completed.

    “We have created these procedures to protect players from the previous tales of unpaid salary arrears and will be working with the clubs to ensure overall improvement of players’ welfare”, remarked the LMC official.

    Gombe United, Sharks and Giwa FC submitted documents that showed they were not paying players the NPFL minimum wage of N150,000 and were thus not certified.

  • Pillars get three month salaries

    Pillars get three month salaries

    SportingLife can report that the Management of Kano Pillars has paid its players the three months salary owed them.

    The club’s General Manager, Babangida Umar ‘Little’, who confirmed this to sportingLife said the players were paid on Friday and Saturday.

    He said the delay in payment was as a result of the new harmonization system introduced by the League Management Company (LMC) to replaced signing-on fee that used to be paid to the players. He added that the management had to wait for the government approval before implementing the new league orders.

    He said the players were paid February, March and April salaries.

    “There are processes we need to follow before we can get the money paid. There are new rules from the LMC and we have to present it to the state government for approval. What we were used to is the signing-on fee but the LMC has cancelled that which means we have to spread the money on their monthly salaries. I want to thank the state government for approving the harmonization salaries for the players and other day to day moral support for the team,” Umar told SportingLife.

    “The players were paid three months salaries on Friday and Saturday. We paid them February, March and April salaries. There match bonuses was paid as at when due. So I want the players to do everything humanly possible to revive the glory of the team,” Umar informed SportingLife.

    Meanwhile, Kano Pillars walloped Sky Academy 4-1 yesterday to become the state Federation Cup Champions.

    Rabiu Ali scored the brace while Maniru Ubale and Nafiu Ibrahim netted one goal apiece to confirm Pillars’ superiority over the young team. Ibrahim Ahamed got a consolation for Sky Academy.

    Awards were giving to the distinguished football administrators like Nigeria football Federation Chairman, Aminu Maigari, former NFA Chairman, Ibrahim Galadima, former Kano Pillars chairman, Abba Yola and Kano Pillars General Manager, Abba Galadima and host of others.

  • Kaduna Utd to clear outstanding salaries in three weeks

    Kaduna Utd to clear outstanding salaries in three weeks

    The Kaduna State Commissioner for Youth and Sports,  Usman Zubairu Birnin-Gwari has assured players and management of Kaduna United that all their outstanding salaries will be cleared in three weeks when the state government accounts re-opens.
    In a chat with the players shortly after watching them beat fellow Premier League side, Nassarawa United 1 nil, the commissioner said: “You are the children of Kaduna State, we have heard your cries, we have seen that you are being owed few months salaries, but I can assure you that all your backlog of salaries will be cleared in three weeks as soon as the state accounts re-opens for 2014,” Birnin-Gwari assured the players.
    He also promised the players that the government is committed to their course and ready to back them financially and morally to assist them win the Nigeria League or getting a continental ticket at the end of the season.
    Responding on behalf of the players, the team captain, Emma Ambrose thanked the commissioner for the visit. He assured the commissioner that the players are fully geared up to give their best in the upcoming season to make the state proud.