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Kogi State Government on Tuesday commenced table payment of all its workers in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as part of efforts to clean the payroll of ghost workers. The Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Ayoade, who made this known in Lokoja, said that the exercise would involve payment of between three to four months salary to workers over a period of two weeks. She said that the table payment would hold in nine centres for workers in Lokoja, while it would hold in designated centres in all senatorial districts for out-station workers. Ayoade added that the table payment would hold simultaneously. According to her, only workers that were cleared during the last screening exercise will participate in the table payment. The monthly wage bill of workers in the state currently stands at N2.6 billion in spite of a prolonged screening exercise under which many workers lost their jobs. Ayoade said that lecturers and other categories of workers in state-own...

…to pay only one month now, others through table payment. …labour frowns at govt. refusal, would make position known. TheNigerianPost reports that the  joy that greeted the announcement that Kogi State Workers would get three and four months salaries to MDA’s and Tertiary institutions is now dashed as the government has made a U- turn. Information available to The Nigerian Post points to the fact that rather than expecting alerts, workers would be made to undergo the process of been paid manually using table payment. According to The Nigerian Post source, disclosed that the government is not comfortable with the N2.8billion monthly wage bill it is paying, hopes to use the table payment to ascertain the State actual wage bill. The organized labour in the state is startled by the present action of government, said the plan table payment should be after it has successfully reached an agreement, and was only waiting for alert to now be told of table payment. The organized labours...

Kogi State chairman Academic Staff Union of Secondary School (ASUSS), Comrade Ranti Mathew Ojo has bemoaned the condition of teachers in the state occasioned by unpaid salaries. Speaking with newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday, Ojo said teachers in Kogi will not be celebrating the World Teachers’ Day slated for 5th October 2018 because of the prevailing issues of unpaid salaries and the hardship in the state. The labour leader said teachers are hungry and demoralized with the current situation on ground. Ojo who doubles as the Kogi State Chairman Trade Union Congress (TUC) noted that Teachers in Kogi State now find it difficult to feed their families daily as they are owned not less than six months to 20 months salaries. “If you ask the teachers to come to Lokoja from all the 21 local government areas from their various schools, they can’t even afford it because salaries have not been paid. The economy does not permit us to organize any meeting or celebrate the 2018 World Teachers’ Da...