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  • ‘NPFL player to receive $2,000 as monthly salary’

    ‘NPFL player to receive $2,000 as monthly salary’

    Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission has sent a cheering news to players in the Globacom Premier League that they would soon start to smile home with monthly salary of

    N312,000.

    The Minister disclosed this during the 2013 Ministerial Platform held at the National Press Center, Radio House, Abuja where he vowed to ensure the Nigerian football elite league is fashioned to what is

    obtainable in South Africa where players and coaches receive fat salaries and bonuses which made their league very attractive.

    According to the Minister, he has charged the Hon. Nduka Irabor-led League Management Committee to work on the modalities that could totally transform the league and make it very attractive so that some of our players would no longer go to obscure countries to ply their football trade.

    He, however, praised the efforts of the League Management Committee so far since it took over the administration of the league in the country.

    “Before the coming of the League Management Committee it was very difficult for clubs to win matches away from home but now we have seen many clubs wining matches away from home. This could only improve if we all work hard to improve not only in football but in other sports as well. So, I am very happy with what the League Management Committee is doing.” the Minister disclosed.

  • Bauchi Assembly orders govt to pay teachers’ salary

    SITTING for the first time since its resumption from a 40-day recess, the Bauchi State House of Assembly yesterday directed the state government to pay, within 14 days, the outstanding five months’ salary of primary school teachers in the state.

    The lawmakers conveyed the order to the government through the Commissioner for Education, Ibrahim Mohammed Aminu.

    They asked the Head of Civil Service, Mr Abdon Dalla Gin; the Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Boar (SUBEB), Abdullahi Dabo; the Chairman, Teachers’ Service Commission; the Chairman, Teachers’ Screening Committee and state Coordinator of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), to appear before them on the floor of the House.

     

  • Abia council workers protest delayed salary

    •Call for transfer of officials

    Workers in Obingwa Local Government of Abia State yesterday protested the alleged delay of their February and part of January salaries as well as arrears of promotion and leave allowances.

    The workers, who converged on the premises of the Nigerian Television Authority, Ogbor Hill, Aba, called for the transfer of their Head of Administration, Ben Nwogu and the Acting Treasurer, Nwaogute Joy.

    They accused them of withholding their salaries, which they said have been released by the government.

    The workers said the situation has made life difficult for them.

    But Nwogu said he was unaware of the protest. He described the protesters as “miscreants”, who have decided to embarrass the council and the state.

    He added that the council has been unable to pay February salaries because of a court order obtained by a lawyer, who worked for the council.

    “We owe our legal adviser and he went to court and obtained a judgment against us. The order has affected the payment of salaries.

    “The problem is not a management matter, it is in court.

    “The Ministry of Justice has appointed a lawyer, who is defending the council; it is a court issue.

    “We are talking with the lawyer and the ministry, until it is settled, we can’t do anything,” he said.

    He accused union officials of causing disaffection in the council and called on the workers to be patient as there are other councils such as Ikwuano, Osisoma Ngwa, Arochukwu, Ukwa West, which were also affected by the problem.

    On the issue of promotion arrears and leave allowances, Nwogu assured that the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs would soon settle the issue as agreed with the workers’ union.

     

  • NAMA gets ultimatum over salary

    • New condition of service approved

    Various aviation unions yesterday threatened to embark on a one-day warning strike  if the management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) fails to implement the approved salary structure for its personnel.

    The affected unions are the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE).

    In an apparent reaction to the strike billed for tomorrow, Friday, February, 22, NAMA, said it would implement the new condition of service contrary to insinuations from the union leaders to the contrary..

    The management attributed the delay in implementing the new salary structure to some critical omissions in the document approved by the National Salaries,Income and Wages Commission

    Addressing  NAMA workers at the Freedom Square, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, National President of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Safianu Mohammed, said the strike is imminent.