Salaries and Review Blog
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday ordered the 36 governors to pay workers their salaries before Christmas so that workers will have a beautiful celebration. The President therefore directed the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, the Minister of Economic…
Second Republic politician and national Legal Adviser of defunct Nigeria Peoples Party , NPP, Chief Guy Ikokwu in this encounter urged that positive steps be taken to restructure the country, adding that the country is already at the brink of…
Dr Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) says the issue of quality and welfare of teachers must be addressed to move the education sector forward. Bobboyi said this while speaking in Abuja on Wednesday. He said that…
It is easier to destroy the economic lives of Nigerian lives than to build them. Soldiers know this but sometimes they build. President Buhari and VP Osinbajo and their team are re-building the naira. Hurray!! Our girls are still missing…
Welcome address delivered at the presidential retreat on education for ministers held on November 13, 2017 at State House, Abuja It is with great respect and gratitude that I welcome His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), to this important Presidential…
Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Founder and President, Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation, in our Executive Platform interview with Prince Okafor, harps on the sustainability of the nation’s debt and continuous borrowing, as…
The new face of human traffickers is organ harvesting; while their new destinations is now the middle east, especially an Arab country called Oman. People are sold into slavery to people in these countries. Human traffickers these days lure unsuspecting…
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has questioned the rationale for the Federal Government’s hiring of consultants from Malaysia with N458 million to help Nigeria build her economic capacities. “The Federal Government’s action is a clear vote of no confidence on…
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to take only half of his salary was what made him (the Vice-President) to do same. He said he also failed in his attempt to convince Buhari to…
Five months after the Federal Government announced Nigeria’ s exit from the crushing economic recession, umbrella body for senior civil servants in the country, at its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Enugu, Enugu State, declared that there are no…
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s support for the Kaduna State Government’s planned sack of about 22,000 teachers that purportedly failed competency test conducted by the State Government. The governor said; “By openly supporting the…
Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has described as scandalous and mind-boggling the news of the sale of the Dollars he was saving and investing for the future of Anambra State termed, Anambra Future Growth Funds. During his…
Midday, Sunday, November 5, another victim was added to the long list of casualties of the non-payment of salaries by Kogi State government. The addition, Zacchaeus Akinola Maliki, a highly committed civil servant, until his death worked with the Kogi…
Kaduna State government has released shocking samples of the answer scripts of the 25,000 teachers who sat for a competency test recently, with 75 per cent failing woefully. The appalling scripts have essentially triggered concerns about the future of Nigerian…
The Niger State Ministry of Education has ordered the Vice Principal of Government Day Secondary School, Tunga, Niger State, Mohammed Mohammed, who impregnated his 16-year-old pupil, Faith Galadima, to take care of her and her baby for three years while…
In the last two days at the College of Education at Ikere-Ekiti, academic activities have been paralyzed as the institution’s workers protest over the non-payment of their eight-month salary arrears. The protest, which started on Monday, continued yesterday as the…
The President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Comrade Francis Olabode Johnson, has called for the unity of organised Labour to fight the state governors who have refused to pay salaries of their workers despite…
Contract staff comprising cleaners, security guards and potters at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) on Monday staged a peaceful protested over non-payment of their six months salary arrears. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest…
With workers’ agitation over unpaid salaries at a feverish pitch, state governors have instigated a fresh bailout package from the Federal Government. In line with this, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum has made a strong case with President Muhammadu Buhari to…
The Bayelsa State government has faulted the claim by President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, that it is one of the biggest defaulting states in salary payment. Commissioner for Information and Orientation Daniel Iworiso-Markson said yesterday that…
Zamfara state government has said that it will henceforth only recognize and collect staff payment vouchers prepared by directors from the state’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) for monthly salary payment. This was announced by the state Head of Service,…