The Niger state government has said that it has blocked loopholes through which over N672 million monthly was paid to ghost workers and other fictitious salary earners in the civil service. Chairman of Salary Management Committee and Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development, Ibrahim Panti, disclosed this in Minna, while speaking on reasons for the […]
The Benue state Local Government Service Commission has uncovered 1, 349 ghost workers on the payroll of the 23 local government areas in the state. Submitting the staff verification report to Governor Samuel Ortom at the Government House, Makurdi on Monday, the Chairman of the commission, Dr. Bem Melladu also said based on the exercise, […]
…Demands minimum wage implementation The organised labour in Kogi has urged the State Government to publish names of uncovered 300 ghost workers allegedly planted by senior civil servants in the state’s payroll. Labour gave the task in a statement by the state Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Onuh Edoka, and his Trade Union […]
Leadership of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Anambra State chapter, has stated categorically that local government offices in the state needs more staff, saying there is no ghost workers in the system. The President of the union, Comrade Chikwelu Adigwe, who stated this, bemoaned the high rate of staff scarcity in Local Government, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said its intervention had assisted to save N4.5 billion monthly, lost to ‘ghost workers’ on the federal government’s payroll. A statement on by EFCC Spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, quoted the commission’s Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, as saying this while delivering a lecture on Thursday at the […]
Fear of the unknown has continued to grip Delta State unified Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) workers following the commencement of State Verification Exercise with no fewer than 226 ghost workers reportedly uncovered, the exercise according to the commission, is line with the State Governor’s policy on the audit of all staff in its employment. […]
The Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise conducted by the Plateau state government aimed at identifying and flushing out ghost workers among civil servants, has exposed 579 fake workers and saved N68.6 million monthly for the state government. Speaking with newsmen at the monthly ministerial briefing yesterday, the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Nazif, assured that […]