•Nwifuru The Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, has again awarded additional N10,000 to the salary of the state workers. The governor made the pronouncement yesterday during the 2024 workers day celebration held at Pa Oruta Ngele Stadium in Abakaliki, the state capital, reports Channels TV. Recall that in July 2023, barely one month in...
The Vice Chancellor of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Prof. Clement Adebooye yesterday disclosed that the university is set to implement the public service rule which states that, no staff should go home with less than 33 per cent of his salary. Adebooye who disclosed this during the maiden annual lecture of the University Bursary Department...
Doctors in Ekiti State Teaching University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) under the aegis of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigerians have vowed not to accept payment of ‘amputated’ salary any longer. The MDCAN chairman, Adeniran Atiba said the increase in the subvention to the health institution from N261 million to N411 milli...
There is growing restiveness among the staff of the federal civil service, ministries, departments and agencies, and MDAs, over unpaid January salaries. The worker’s situation is compounded by the fact that they also owed a backlog of N35,000 in wage awards, reports Vanguard. It was gathered that non-payment of the January salary to core civil...
•Mazi Eze A lecturer at the Department of English, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Mazi Eze, has shared his frustration after being denied a N5 million loan due to his monthly salary of N191,000. Narrating his experience in a post on his Facebook page yesterday, Eze recalled his visit to First Bank, Choba, where he […]
•FCT primary school teachers protest Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), today, staged a protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The protesting teachers accused the FCT Area Councils of poor attention to their welfare, reports Channels TV. The teachers protested the non-payment of salary arrears, promotion arrears a...
The academic and non-academic staff unions of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, have began strike due to 11 months of unpaid salary. It was gathered that the workers through their various union leaders, had given the school’s management December 31 as deadline to settle the unpaid salaries, reports The Guardian. Following the industrial act...
The President of Bauchi State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BACCIMA), Alhaji Aminu Muhammad Danmaliki, has advised salary workers to take to other means of livelihood to survive. Muhammad , popularly known by his traditional title of Danmaliki Bauchi, made the remark when he received officials of the Correspondents’ Cha...
•Nigerian Senate The leadership of the 10th Senate has donated 109 million naira to victims of mistaken army air strike at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, who announced the donation when he led other principal officers and senators on a condolence visit [&hel...