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C’River Civil Servants Protest ₦12m Deduction For HoS Party

Some civil servants in Cross River State have raised the alarm over alleged plan to deduct about ₦12m from their salaries to organise a send forth party for the state’s Head of Service (HoS).

Checks by our correspondent revealed that the HoS, Mr Ekpenyong I. Henshaw, would soon retire and senior directors in the state had concluded arrangements to organise what they described as “successful pulling out of service party” for him.

And to implement the plan, the directors were said to have set up an interim committee to work out modalities on how to raise the funds for the

Kwara: 200 Civil Servants Queried For Neglect Of Duties

Kwara: 200 Civil Servants Queried For Neglect Of Duties

The Kwara State government, on Thursday, said that more than 200 civil servants had been issued queries for dereliction of duties.

Mr Murtala Atoyebi, the Chief Press Secretary to the state Head of Service, said in a statement issued in Ilorin that the affected civil servants were from various ministries and parastatals.

Atoyebi said that their alleged offenses ranged from absenteeism, lateness to leaving their duty posts before the official closing hour.

“The Head of Service, Mrs Modupe Oluwole, had in August, commenced a routine monitoring exercise of check-in time for public workers in the state capital to ensure …

Katsina Civil Servants Deserve New Minimum Wage – Masari

Katsina Civil Servants Deserve New Minimum Wage – Masari

Gov. Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State said on Wednesday that civil servants in the state deserve to be paid the new national minimum wage.

“Katsina civil servants actually need the new minimum wage as they have been putting in their best to move the state forward,” Masari said at the opening of the 5th quadrennial delegates conference of the state medical and health workers union, in Katsina.

Masari explained that inflation and other economic leakages had eaten into the current N18, 000 minimum wage.

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He, however, urged union leaders …

Kogi civil servants begging to feed, says NLC

Civil servants in Kogi State now beg to feed their families, due to non-payment of their monthly emoluments, according to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lamented yesterday.

The state chairman of NLC, Onuh Edoka, at the seventh quadrennial delegates’ conference in Lokoja, appealed to the state government to do something urgently to reverse the trend.

Edoka maintained that the civil servants were owed between seven and 30 months in salaries, a situation he said made it impossible for them to pay their bills.

He also regretted that workers were being owed their leave bonuses, while promotion exercise carried out by …