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Saturday, June 13, 2015
List Of States Owing Salaries Of 6 Months And Above... Why Single Out Osun State?
Why the Focus only Osun, why Some states are even owing 9months Salary? Abia State for example paid it's last salaries on November 30th 2014. Why can't we expose all of them? Why in a 18 Cans of worms, we Choose only one can to open?
The following States are owing Six Months and above:
Benue State
Kogi State:
Platue State
Bauchi State
Imo State
Abia State
Osun State
Enugu( Parastals are owed 12month arrears)
Read Below:
The Punch reports that Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kogi. Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara owe their employees salary arrears of at least 6 months, citing a task force report by the Nigeria Labour Congress.
According to the paper, “The report of the Task Force of the NLC revealed that while some of the states had paid salaries of workers up to date, they were owing arrears of pensions running into months.
The states owing salaries or pensions are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, and Kogi.
Others are Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara states.
The report says that Adamawa, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Edo, the FCT, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto and Taraba are not indebted to their workers.
The report paints a bleak picture of civil service workers across the country. Take Abia for example. The report states that it has not paid the salaries of workers at the State Teaching Hospital for nine months.
The state is also said to be owing workers of the Hospital Management Board eight months’ salary; Abia State Universal Basic Education Board, six months; Abia State Polytechnic, five months; local government workers, four months; and teachers, three months’ salary arrears.
Enugu may have paid the salaries of civil servants till date, but parastatals are owed 12 months’ salaries and pension and gratuity payments haven’t been issued since 2010.
For other states, the picture is a sorry one. Osun, on average, owes six months’ in salary and pension payments; Plateau, six months in salaries and seven months in pension entitlements; Benue, five months of salaries and four months of pension benefits; Kogi, four months in arrears of pension and salary payments; and Oyo, which owes three months in salaries and between five and 11 months of pension payments.
States which are likely to owe salaries and pension of workers well into the commencement of the incoming administration’s tenure on May 29 include Ekiti, which is already in arrears of state employee salaries for three months; Jigawa, which owes judiciary workers a month in salary arrears; Ondo, which owes a month’s salary and pension payments, while Ogun also owes a month of salary payments but a mind-boggling 52 months of unremitted pension deductions to the Pension Fund Administration.
While Zamfara has paid workers’ salaries up to date, the salaries of workers recruited in 2014 have not been paid.
The NLC Task Force also manipulated Rivers State for owing one month’s worth of pay and three months worth of pension payments while Kano is yet to pay newly employed teachers for three months.
The report was silent on the status of Yobe and Ebonyi on the ground that “there was no information on them.”
The following States are owing Six Months and above:
Benue State
Kogi State:
Platue State
Bauchi State
Imo State
Abia State
Osun State
Enugu( Parastals are owed 12month arrears)
Read Below:
The Punch reports that Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kogi. Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara owe their employees salary arrears of at least 6 months, citing a task force report by the Nigeria Labour Congress.
According to the paper, “The report of the Task Force of the NLC revealed that while some of the states had paid salaries of workers up to date, they were owing arrears of pensions running into months.
The states owing salaries or pensions are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, and Kogi.
Others are Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara states.
The report says that Adamawa, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Edo, the FCT, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto and Taraba are not indebted to their workers.
The report paints a bleak picture of civil service workers across the country. Take Abia for example. The report states that it has not paid the salaries of workers at the State Teaching Hospital for nine months.
The state is also said to be owing workers of the Hospital Management Board eight months’ salary; Abia State Universal Basic Education Board, six months; Abia State Polytechnic, five months; local government workers, four months; and teachers, three months’ salary arrears.
Enugu may have paid the salaries of civil servants till date, but parastatals are owed 12 months’ salaries and pension and gratuity payments haven’t been issued since 2010.
For other states, the picture is a sorry one. Osun, on average, owes six months’ in salary and pension payments; Plateau, six months in salaries and seven months in pension entitlements; Benue, five months of salaries and four months of pension benefits; Kogi, four months in arrears of pension and salary payments; and Oyo, which owes three months in salaries and between five and 11 months of pension payments.
States which are likely to owe salaries and pension of workers well into the commencement of the incoming administration’s tenure on May 29 include Ekiti, which is already in arrears of state employee salaries for three months; Jigawa, which owes judiciary workers a month in salary arrears; Ondo, which owes a month’s salary and pension payments, while Ogun also owes a month of salary payments but a mind-boggling 52 months of unremitted pension deductions to the Pension Fund Administration.
While Zamfara has paid workers’ salaries up to date, the salaries of workers recruited in 2014 have not been paid.
The NLC Task Force also manipulated Rivers State for owing one month’s worth of pay and three months worth of pension payments while Kano is yet to pay newly employed teachers for three months.
The report was silent on the status of Yobe and Ebonyi on the ground that “there was no information on them.”
Three trekkers for Atiku stranded in Yola
Three men, who trekked to Yola in honour of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, are now stranded in Yola.
The men, Salihu Jibrin, Aliyu Adamu and Abubakar Suleiman, who spoke to newsmen on Saturday in Yola, said since their arrival, they have been unable to see their mentor, Atiku.
They said all they needed was to see Atiku or his representatives to deliver their messages and go back to their various destinations.
“I trekked for 38 days all the way from Lagos to Yola to see Atiku in view of his role over APC’s victory in the general election but up till now I hAve been unable to see him.
“I am now stranded with no money to go back; at times I sleep in motor parks or squat with good Samaritans,” Jibrin said.
Adamu, who rode on a bicycle from Kaduna to Yola, said he spent eight days on the way.
“I want to thank the Secretary, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Adamawa Council, Mr. Baba Zare, who had been assisting me since arrival to cope with the difficult situation I found myself.
“I want to meet Atiku before finding my way back to Kaduna,” Adamu said.
On his part, Suleiman, who trekked from Shelleng town, Adamawa, to Yola said he had been squatting from one relation to the other while waiting for an opportunity to see Atiku before going back home.
Anxiety over Ekiti kingship crisis
The ancient town of Ikere Ekiti erupted in series of protest by women last week over Prince Adejimi Adu as the monarch-elect of the community.
They alleged opposition of his choice by the regent of the community, Princess Adeyooye Ayooye and her Akayejo Ruling House against the selection.
The protests included those of the Ikere Women Front and a group of women from Ogbenuote and Agabaola Ruling Houses. The protests came on the heels of an earlier one on Monday by a group of women opposed to the selection of the monarchelect.
The Ikere Women Front blamed the recent protests in the community on the desperation of the regentled Akayejo Ruling House to impose its stooge as the next ‘Oba’ of the town through violent means.
Leader of the group, Mrs Ilori Ogunlade, alleged that the anti-Adu protesters were “ignorantly mobilised by their payers to rubbish the image of the state government and discredit the choice of the new king”.
Ogunlade, who berated the regent for allegedly sponsoring a campaign against the state government in a bid to elongate her tenure, also cautioned the warring section of the Uro axis of the town to stop pursuing any sectional agenda which might lead to uprising from the other sections of the community.
Similarly, placardscarrying group of women from Ogbenuote and Agabaola Ruling Houses also accused some power brokers from the Akayejo Ruling House of impersonating the entire Ikere women
NTA requires $15m to complete digitisation – DG
The Nigerian Television Authority says it requires 15 million dollars (N2.9bn) to complete its digitisation programme and N6bn naira for total restructuring across the country.
The Director-General of the, Mr Sola Omole, stated this on Friday in Tianjin in Beijing in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at a seminar on African digitisation.
The seminar, the fifth in the series, was organised by StarTimes, a major Telecommunications company in China.
NAN reports that StarTimes has a presence in Nigeria through its partnership with the NTA in its digitisation programme.
The forum had over 40 representatives from African countries including Nigeria.
It has as its focus, the challenges of digitisation and why most African countries will not meet the June 17 digital migration and switchover.
Omole said that only four African countries had met the requirement and were ready for the switchover.
“As of now, over 97 per cent of African countries, including Nigeria, may not meet the June 17 deadline,” he said.
Omole said that Nigeria started on a bright note but soon slowed down due to funding challenges.
“We made steady progress through the assistance of our partners StarTimes, but attention shifted to politics and there was lack of funds during the period which affected the programme.
“It will be difficult to meet the June 17 switchover deadline because the structure on ground does not support it, though efforts have been made, there exists several gaps and challenges.”
According to Omole, “NTA needs some time to provide the needed infrastructure and adequate funding which is most critical.”
“The process is capital intensive and most African countries are at various stages of implementation while only a few had advanced.
“It is said that the switchover will affect countries around you that are analogue.
“But now that most African countries are not ready, nothing will change,” Omole said.
The DG said that the challenges affecting African countries were the same – funding and providing the structure.
“It is a capital intensive project replacing a whole package from analogue to digital and the training need. It is a complex situation.
“Our organisation needs over N6bn for restructuring because what we do affects so many agencies that depend on us directly or indirectly as an institution,”he said.
Omole said that the support from the organisation should not be the primary concern but proper funding and providing structure to complete the project.
The Chairman of StarTimes, Dr Xinxing Pang, said that the digitisation project started in Nigeria in 2009.
He said that his organisation had so far provided 15 high power transmitters in Nigeria through its partnership with the NTA.
“What remains is for government to support the project through funding and providing infrastructure for its completion,” he said.
He, however, pledged more support for NTA to complete the project.
Some Nigerian Telecommunications officials who attended the programme blamed poor funding that resulted in abandonment of the project.
They also attributed lack of infrastructure for the country’s inability to meet the June 17 switchover deadline.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the project was compromised by the political era, which might have affected the deadline.
“We are not happy that we are in the same boat with small countries also struggling to meet the deadline,” they said.
Top 20 Most Developed Countries By HDI (See Nigeria's Position)
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2. Australia
3. Switzerland
4. Netherlands
5. United States
6. Germany
7. New Zealand
8. Canada
9. Singapore
10. Denmark
11. Ireland
12. Sweden
13. Iceland
14. United Kingdom
15. Hong Kong
16. South Korea
17. Japan
18. Liechtenstein
19. Isreal
20. France
118. South Africa
138. Ghana
152. Nigeria
LAUTECH Student Dies During Football Match
Fatai Kolawole, a 400 level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) slumped and died earlier this week during a football match organised by his department.
The young man, who was studying chemical engineering was said to have collapsed in the middle of the pitch and was immediately rushed to the University health centre.
According to his colleague, the officials at the health centre asked the students who had brought him to take him to Bowen Hospital, Ogbomoso which was a few miles away from the campus and a nurse was assigned to accompany them. The ambulance was requested for but was not provided because the driver had gone to buy food.
The colleague continued: “On our way, we were stopped by the SARS (Special anti-robbery Squad) we tendered our urgency and they helped us clear the way to Bowen Hospital, when we got there he was rushed inside the emergency ward with news only reaching us outside that the Doctor has certified him dead.
“We got back to Health center to report situation of things, when we met the Doctor-in- charge (named withheld) who said Fatai was dead even before we brought him from the field. That was a big lie, i was the one who carried him in my arms inside the health center and i am very sure he was still gasping for air, fighting for his dear life.”
The University declared three day mourning in honour of the deceased and expressed sympathy to the family.
The students, led by the President of the Student Union, Bakare Solace, however, embarked on a peaceful protest as a way of showing their dissatisfaction at the way the issue was handled.
Recently, two students of a university in Anambra state reportedly died in a hostel room located not far from the school.
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