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  • Ekiti promotes 15,772 workers, pays 2months salaries, Christmas bonus

    Ekiti promotes 15,772 workers, pays 2months salaries, Christmas bonus

    Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti has given approval for the immediate promotion of 15,772 public servants in the spirit of Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

    A statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday and signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said the promotion cuts across workers in the local governments, teaching service and the core civil servants.

    The statement said that the beneficiaries consisted mainly of those whose promotions were due since 2012, 2013 and 2014.

    It said the governor had consequently ordered that letters of promotion be given the affected workers without further delay.

    The statement, however, clarified that the promotion status still remained nominal, as the cash backing for the exercise would be effective only from March 2017.

    It announced that all categories of workers in the state had been paid two months salaries in December, while Christmas bonus would be paid immediately after the Christmas holiday.

    The statement quoted the governor as saying that, though, the state was currently grappling with economic challenges, it did not mean that deserving workers should not be recognised for hard work.

    “We won’t deny our workers their dues and entitlements, economic recession or no economic recession, as leaders of the state, we must be fair to all and that is what we are doing

    “Our administration is resolute in giving the best to all Ekiti people, including those in the public service.

    “This month alone, we have paid two salaries, we are also paying Christmas bonus after the holiday

    “We deliberately spaced the payment of the bonus so that after the Christmas holiday, workers will still have something to fall back on,” it said.(NAN)

  • Salaries: Ondo workers drag A-G to banks

    Salaries: Ondo workers drag A-G to banks

    Workers in Ondo State on Thursday forcefully dragged the Account-General (AG), Mr. Felix Ajibokun to banks to begin the process of payment of workers’ salaries.
    The aggrieved workers, who earlier picketed the A-G office at Alagbaka Akure, the state capital, are being owed six months salaries.
    They were led by their Joint Negotiating  Council (JNC) Chairman, Mr. Sunday Adeleye and the State Chairman, Mrs. Bosede Daramola and other union leaders.
    They are pleading the government for one month salary to enable them celebrate the Christmas.
    The state governor, Olusegun Mimiko was said to have directed the AG to pay the workers.
    But, Ajibokun, who is expected to retire from service today (Thursday), had allegedly refused to commence the payment.
    Adeleye, while speaking with reporters, said the union leaders recently met Governor Olusegun Mimiko and they both resolved that the workers should be paid a month for them to have money to celebrate the Christmas.
    He said “about four days ago, we met with the governor and the Commissioner for Finance and the AG was directed to pay the workers salaries so that everybody can go home with something.
    ” Since then, we have been coming here but he has been avoiding us until today (yesterday)when we asked him when he will pay us, but he said no workers will be paid until after Christmas.
    “For your information, this is the man that will be retiring from service on Friday and the system is this, he is the only who has the legal right to pay workers and the moment he retires, it will take government up to three weeks to appointment another AG.
    “Let me tell, people are dying. What manner of parent are you, when you cannot buy your child a T-shirt.
    “We will continue to keep vigil on this premises until the AG is ready to pay the workers”.
    Ajibokun, however blamed poor banking network for the reason for the delay of the payment.
  • “Pay salaries before Christmas’’ – Gov. Ugwuanyi directs council chairmen

    “Pay salaries before Christmas’’ – Gov. Ugwuanyi directs council chairmen

    Governor. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has directed the chairmen of the 17 local government areas in the state to pay full salaries of their workers before Christmas.

    He gave the directive at the inauguration of the United Enugu Women for Gburugburu on Saturday in Enugu.

    The governor said the directive was in line with the premium his administration placed on the welfare of public servants.

    Ugwuanyi said that the achievements his administration had recorded so far were by providence and prudent management of the state’s lean resources.

    The governor thanked the women of the state for their support and continuous prayers for the success of the administration, describing them as “pathfinders’’ in the quest for good governance in the state.

    “In Enugu State, God is in charge of its affairs.

    “I am just a mere instrument in the hands of God for the progress of the state,’’ Ugwuanyi said.

    He, however, declared that “the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state is one indivisible family’’.

    The governor also thanked all the members of PDP for what he called their “unprecedented support” to his administration.

    Earlier, the state co-coordinator of the organisation, Mrs Josephine Nwokedike, had disclosed that the body was established to “create political consciousness among the women of the state.

    The establishment, she added, was to ensure their active involvement in the scheme of things’’.

    In an address, the state Deputy Governor, Mrs Cecilia Ezeilo, lauded Ugwuanyi for his immense respect and commitment toward the progress of Enugu women.

    Ezeilo described the governor as a “God-sent, visionary, humble and women-friendly governor’’.

    She commended the women for their contributions to the development of the state and called on them to show more commitment to the organisation’s noble objectives. (NAN)

  • Oshiomhole to Wike: pay workers’ salaries to be man enough to speak on Edo poll

    Oshiomhole to Wike: pay workers’ salaries to be man enough to speak on Edo poll

    Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday threw another jab at Governor Governor Nyesom Wike of River State, asking him to face governance in his state and pay the salaries of workers, instead of squandering the peoples’ slim resources on an election the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is bound to lose.

    Governor Oshiomhole’s attack on Wike is the latest in the exchange of brickbats between the governors ahead of the September 28 governorship election in the state.

    Oshiomhole said it was laughable for Governor Wike to have some level of effrontery to talk about governance when he (Wike) has been unable to pay the state’s workers’ salaries for several months.

    He urged Governor Wike to learn how to talk him, “that is performing and up-to-date with payment of salaries and not one, whose noise alone can cause further pollution in a Rivers environment that was already degraded.”

    Oshiomhole also advised Wike to spend the money he planned to spend for the PDP in Edo State to pay the backlog of salaries owed civil servants in River State.

    Speaking through the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Kassim Afegbua, Oshiomhole stated that there was no reason why Governor Wike would waste the people’s resources on Edo election out of sheer desperation to acquire regional powers.

    According to him, “In the circle of governance, where men are truly called men, someone like Governor Wike cannot muster any courage to be called a man when he has continuously held Rivers workers in scorn without paying them their due salaries and emoluments.

    “Even though Edo State is not as economically viable as Rivers State, we do not only pay our workers salaries, we have since increased our workers minimum wages from N18,000 to N25,000.

    “That this salary increase is happening at a time when Governor Wike is lamenting over paucity of funds should explain in greater details our uncommon creativity and prudent management of resources.

    “The last time we visited Rivers State, we were appalled by the plights of Rivers workers whose lamentations Governor Wike has consistently ignored. Our piece of advice to him as a younger brother was to properly guide him so he doesn’t go astray by the temptations of an election that his party is bound to lose.

    “Rather than waste Rivers people’s money, keep Rivers people’s money for them. He should be reminded that Edo voters are not gullible like voters elsewhere and their level of sophistication would make the September 28th election a smooth sail for the All Progressives Congress. It is our responsibility to caution Governor Wike before he exports his gangsterism to Edo State.”

  • Ogun pays August salaries, deductions

    Ogun State government has paid August salaries to all categories of civil and public servants in the state as well as pensioners in fulfillment of its commitment to the welfare of its work force and pensioners.

    The state government also paid  part of the outstanding cooperative deductions due to the workers.

    The State Commissioner for Finance, Adewale Oshinowo, said the payment of the deductions is “a promise kept by Governor Ibikunle Amosun,” adding that, “it is a further demonstration of the commitment of the administration to the welfare of its workforce.”

    “The Ogun State government has fully paid all categories of staff, including local government and pensioners. The state has also paid part of the outstanding cooperative deductions. This is in a bid to ensure that our workers enjoy the coming Eid-el-Kabir holiday.

    “It is in fulfillment of this, that the governor ordered the payment of part of the outstanding deductions,” the Commissioner for Finance said.

  • UUTH doctors begin strike over unpaid salaries

    Resident doctors at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) in Akwa Ibom State have begun an indefinite strike over unpaid salaries.

    Addressing reporters in Uyo, the state capital, UUTH’s President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) Dr. Christian Adeneye said the doctors were demanding, among other things, the payment of their full salaries from July.

    Adeneye said UUTH was one of the three national hospitals, which refused to implement the rightful entry point and arrears accrued from same to House Officers, as directed by the Federal Ministry of Health.

    The union leader condemned ‘’the unfair denial’’ of terminal salaries to six House Officers in June, compelling them to work without pay, despite the association’s plea on July 18.

    He said: “It is grossly displeasing to the association that relatively arrears of January 2015, which was disbursed by the Federal Government to beneficiaries, are yet to be paid by our institution till date.

    “The association has observed with suspicion the inconsistent remittance of pension contributions of members and counterpart funding by the Federal Government to our pension fund administrators (PFAs).

    “We note with chagrin the marked disparity in taxation of members on IPPIS and GIFMIS platforms, plunging our members on GIFMIS platform into paying taxes twice above those on IPPIS platform. This is further corroded by the inability of our members to access their tax clearance.

    “Congress also frowns at the persistent neglect, lack of maintenance, failure to provide power and water to House Officers’ quarters, which has engendered difficult habitation, thereby hampering the efficiency in service delivery in the hospital.”

  • Ondo school workers protest non-payment of 13 months’ salaries

    Ondo school workers protest non-payment of 13 months’ salaries

    Activities were disrupted yesterday morning at the St Francis Caring Heart Mega School, Owaluwa in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

    This followed a peaceful protest staged by non-teaching staff of the school over non-payment of their 13 months salaries.

    The aggrieved workers, as early as 7.30am, stormed the school, locked the gate and prevented the teachers and pupils from entering the school.

    The protesting workers, numbering 15, carried placards different inscriptions such as “Governor Mimiko pay our money “, “We are starving”, “We have children too” and several others.

    Speaking on behalf of the protesters,Mr. Abu Ayodeji said they have been pressing for the payment of their salaries since the beginning of the year,”but all our efforts only received negative response from the government”.

    Ayodeji said they would continue the protest until the government finds solution to the problem.

    Commissioner of Education Jide Adejuyigbe was not available for comments as all his mobile phones were switched off as at the time of filing this report.

    But a source with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), who craved for anonymity, said the workers were not directly on the payroll of the government,”but effort was at an advancedstage to pay the contractor for inward settlement of his workers”.

    Normalcy,  however, returned to the school following the intervention of some eminent persons in the town and the police.

     

  • Imo workers to get three months’ salaries 

    Imo workers to get three months’ salaries 

    •Governor orders immediate payment

    It was cheery news for Imo State workers yesterday as Governor Rochas Okorocha ordered the immediate payment of outstanding April, May and June salaries.

    The directive followed a meeting between the governor and top government functionaries, including directors of accounts, treasurers, permanent secretaries, leaders of Imo Council of Elders and Transition Committee chairmen at the Government House in Owerri, the state capital, on Friday night.

    A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, after the meeting, said: “This is to inform Imo people and, indeed, all the personnel in the state’s workforce in particular, that Governor Okorocha has directed that the salaries for the months of April, May and June be paid before next Friday (July 8) and gave a marching order to the directors of Accounts in the ministries, local governments, and so on, to meet with the Accountant-General of the state immediately to work out the salaries of workers up to the month of June.

    “The governor also warned that this period should be the last time salaries would be owed in the state and assured that henceforth, salaries of workers in the state would be paid as at when due as it was the case before now. To avoid confusion and delay in the payment of salaries for the aforementioned months, the governor also directed that they could be paid within intervals of one or two days.”

    The statement added: “A committee to monitor the prompt payment of salaries in the state was also set up and the committee would be meeting with the directors of Accounts and Accountant-General on the 10th of every month to work on salaries and ensure prompt payment.

    “The governor equally explained that the 70 and 30 per cent revenue sharing formula between Labour and government in the state does not mean that workers would get only 70 per cent of salaries at the end of each month.

    “The governor said the workers could even get more than their salaries, depending on what the 70 per cent Labour gets would give them at the end of each month; it could at times get their exact salaries or otherwise, also depending on what the 70 per cent would give to Labour.

    “He said it would be wrong to use the 70 per cent agreement to peg the monthly salaries of workers at 70 per cent because Labour’s 70 per cent could give the workers either 100 per cent or 80 per cent or 70 per cent or less per cent of their individual salaries, depending on what Labour gets each month.

    “In paying the three months’ salary arrears, the governor warned that anybody found playing pranks will be punished accordingly; he reiterated that nobody in the state’s workforce should be owed.”

    On revenue collection in the state, the statement said: “The governor also directed that no government appointee, including commissioners, Transition Committee chairmen and so on, should issue authorisation letter or give permission to anybody or agency or company for the collection of revenue.

    “He cautioned that anybody that goes contrary to this directive will be fired.

    “He, therefore, cancelled any previous agreement anybody or group or company must have had with the government on the collection of revenue.

    “The governor also informed that arrangements have been made to clear pensions owed before the agreement on revenue sharing formula between government and Labour, while the technical committee handling the agreement would take care of pensions from the month of February when the agreement came into force.

    “His Excellency once again appealed to Imo people to always know that all his actions and inactions are in the best interest of the state and its people. He concluded that history and posterity will be fair to him because he meant well for the state.”

  • Dickson lauds EKSU for paying salaries

    Dickson lauds EKSU for paying salaries

    Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, paid tribute to the management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti last Saturday for managing the institution well despite the current economic challenges.

    Dickson spoke after being conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (honoris Causa) in Public Administration at the university’s 21st convocation, during which a total of 18,685 candidates received Degrees, Diplomas and Post-graduate Diplomas.

    The Governor said: “It is a great privilege to have been invited here and decorated with this beautiful academic robe.  The Ekiti State University has become a model for other institutions. Just two days ago, I sent a team from our state university to come here and interact with your management with a view to find out how you are managing to pay salaries without receiving the subventions from your governor.”

    Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, also joined in praising the vice chancellor, Prof Samuel Bandele and his team. He also commended the institution’s council led by Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, for making the right choice in Bandele last December.

    “I want to appreciate the governing council of the university for your efforts and outstanding performance at a time like this when financing government has become a huge challenge in the face of the dwindling federal allocations. Your performance for the six months has been commendable,” he said.

    In light of the economic crunch, Fayose urged the graduands to look towards agriculture for jobs.

    “Those that are graduating, the queue out there is long and white collar jobs are rare.  Those who even have such jobs, are they paid regularly?  The situation is getting tougher every day, and we must all invest more in agriculture,” he said.

    In his speech, Prof Bandele said the institution has survived this far because he has vigorously pursued his mission to turn EKSU into a 21st century globally acclaimed university that will excel in academics, research, culture and moral values.

    He said the Revenue and Academic Summits organised to achieve the mission were already yielding positive dividends.

    For instance he said the revenue summit led to the establishment of EKSU Ventures which has been granted certificate of incorporation by the Corporate Affairs Commission and has created jobs and income.

    He said the university now has a bakery which produces bread, a block industry, a farm and has revived the university press which now handles printing jobs within and outside the university.

    The VC said the EKSU is also entering into partnership with notable universities in some parts of the world to reposition it academically so it can access research grants for various programmes.

    Bandele also said the university has revamped its Examination and Records Units which gave the institution a negative image because of late issuance of results, transcripts and certificates.

    Other achievements listed by Bandele included the expansion of academic programmes, development of Information and Communication Technology and the rehabilitation of various facilities, including the university library.

    Two others, Gbenga Oyebode, a lawyer and businessman; and Oba Adegoke Adeyemi, the Alara of Aramoko and Chancellor of the university, were honored along with Dickson.

    Oyebode bagged a honorary doctorate degree in Law, while Oba Adeyemi received bagged a honorary degree in Public Administration.

    Thanking the university for the honour, Oyebode said: “Over the years, I supported this university, the Faculty of Law has been receiving my support every week in the last 20 years. It is not every day you get celebrated at home and I cherish this first honorary doctorate degree. I thank this university for celebrating me.”

    Of the 18,685 graduands, 3,054 were full-time students; 392, Sandwich; 10,613 from affiliate colleges; and 3,937 part-time students.

    At the Postgraduate level, 78 bagged Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees; 366 Masters; 127 professional Masters; and 118 Post-Graduate Diploma.

  • Teachers battle Dickson over six-month unpaid salaries 

    Teachers battle Dickson over six-month unpaid salaries 

    •May half salary rejected
    •Full pay for January demanded

    Secondary school teachers in Bayelsa State are at loggerheads with Governor Seriake Dickson over his administration’s inability to pay them since January.

    At the weekend, the teachers protested the governor’s decision to pay them half of May salary out of about six months the government owed them.

    Dickson had urged the teachers to gather at the Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha Memorial Centre in Yenagoa, the state capital, to get their salaries.

    But trouble reportedly started when the teachers discovered that the government was only willing to pay 50 per cent of their May salary.

    The aggrieved workers rejected the offer and took to the street in protest.

    But the governor, who saw the teachers in the morning during his routine jogging to keep fit, reportedly asked them to manage what was available.

    He promised to pay them the January salary at the end of this month.

    The teachers were reportedly angry because they were not paid in January when civil servants in some ministries last received their full-month salaries.

    One of the teachers, who spoke in confidence, said they expected the governor to pay them January salary in full first before negotiating half-payment for May.

    He said: “We got a message this morning (Friday) that we should come here, that they wanted to pay us our salary. The annoying thing is that the governor paid civil servants their January salary but he did not pay us. Now, he wants to pay half-salary for May instead of paying the January salary.

    “Even, he has not given us the January salary; February too has not been paid. There are still the March and April salaries, which have not been paid. But now, he wants to pay half of May salary when we are in June.

    “We were there at the Government House. We assembled in front of the Government House and the governor was passing by, after he went for jogging.  He called the leader of our group and told him to tell us to be patient and accept the half-salary for May. He said at the end of this month, he would pay the January salary.”

    The teacher also complained that the state’s chapter of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) was doing the bidding of the government.

    He said the leader of the union hails from the same local government area with the governor.

    “What we are saying is that we cannot accept half-salary for May without our January salary being paid to us. The January salary should be addressed,” the teacher said.

    But it was gathered that the teachers, under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUUS), sent a delegation to Education Commissioner Markson Fefegha to discuss the matter.

    ASUUS Chairman Oyinemi Eberedeni and its Secretary Pedro Igbudu led the delegation.

    They said the teachers rejected the half-salary and appeald to the government to keep the money in teachers’ account pending when the January salary would be ready.

    Following the protest, a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said Dickson later met with the teachers and approved full payment of the January salary.

    The governor said his administration placed high premium on the Education sector.

    He vowed to make the workers happy at all levels.

    He blamed the country’s dwindling economic fortunes for the salary delay, assuring workers that the February, March and April salary arrears would be paid when the situation improved.

    Dickson thanked the affected teachers for their tolerance and understanding.

    The governor advised members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) to cooperate with his administration.

    He added: “No reasonable government will ordinarily owe its workforce. But the present economic situation in the country demands that all hands must be on deck to proffer a lasting solution to the economic crisis.

    “The strike will lead the state nowhere. ASUU should be concerned about the future of the students and reason with the government.”