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Friday, 5 February 2016

Electricity tariff hike: labor to go on nationwide strike on Monday.

Posted on 00:28 by Steve Igbokwe

The organized labor, Civil Society Organizations and electricity consumers across the country will hold a nationwide protest on Monday to show their displeasure with the recent forty-five per cent hike in electricity tariffs announced by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.

According to the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Ayuba Wabba, Nigerians have been mobilized to come out in their numbers on Monday to support the protest.

“ The Abuja rally will start at Labour House, Central Business District at 8.00 am before moving to the NERC head office at Adamawa Plaza, Plot 1099, First Avenue, Off Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District. From the NERC office, the rally will roll to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company at Zone 4. The rally will mobilise from there to the National Assembly.

“This protest rally has become necessary after all effort to make NERC shelve the idea of increase failed. Indeed, rather than see reason with Nigerians, the minister for power, works and housing has been advancing spurious arguments in its justification,” he said.

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Thursday, 4 February 2016

Chika Ike visits NAFDAC D-G, issues New Project alert

Posted on 22:56 by Steve Igbokwe

2016 has started on a good note for Chika Ike as she declared on her Facebook time line.

The delectable actress was at NAFDAC headquarters in Abuja and shared photos of her meeting with the Director General of the agency, Paul Orhii.

Chika Ike
New project alert. 2016 is definitely a good year. Business . # newprojectalert

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EFCC grills Tom Ikimi over arms procurement scandal

Posted on 21:56 by Steve Igbokwe

A former All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Tom Ikimi has been answering questions at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja over his alleged role in the mismanagement of the $2.1b arms procurement fund.

Ikimi who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the run up to the 2015 Presidential election was fingered in the $2.1b scandal.

According to Sahara Reporters, Ikimi was quizzed for a couple of days but was allowed to go home at the end of each day because of the condition of his health.

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BVN: FG to delete 23,306 ghost workers from payroll

Posted on 21:10 by Steve Igbokwe

A panel investigating multiple salary payments in the Federal Civil Service has indicted 23,306 civil servants as ghost workers.

The panel recommended some banks for further investigation. Already, the Federal Government has started deleting some of the indicted names from its payroll.

According to a reliable source, the ghost workers were discovered after government adopted the Bank Verification Number, BVN for salary payments.

“Out of the accounts of about 312,000 civil servants processed so far, the ministry was said to have uncovered irregularities in the account of about 23,306 of them, who were suspected to have been collecting double salary.

“These indicted individuals are in two categories. In the first group, we found out that the names of some civil servants, whose salaries are being processed, are different from the names on the accounts where their salaries are paid. What this means is either those in this category are drawing salary from two sources (which could be different agencies), or they are ghost workers,” said the source.

It was also discovered that some of the payments have been going into dormant accounts.

Some banks are now being investigated for their roles in the scam.

A source disclosed that some of the dormant accounts are domiciled in a particular branch of a certain bank. Indeed, about 300 salary accounts were opened in one day and all have become dormant.

Abujacitynews gathered that government decided to adopt the BVN for payment of salaries after the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS proved ineffective in eliminating ghost workers in the federal civil service.