The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Aliyu, said on Wednesday the commission recovered over N20 billion in...
The Jigawa State government has uncovered 6,348 ghost workers on its payroll. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Youths, Sports and Culture, Sagir Musa, disclosed this in...
The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, said on Thursday the state government had uncovered 523 ghost workers in the last three years. The governor stated this...
It seems the last has not been heard of the impasse between the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Imo State government. In the run up...
The Abia State government has accused former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of employing many workers during his last weeks in power between December 2022 and April 2023...
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, on Tuesday, announced that the Federal Government had uncovered 1,618 ‘ghost workers’ in the federal...
The Abia State government says it has discovered and removed 2,300 ghost workers from the state’s payroll which saved the state over N200 million on the...
The Bayelsa State government says it has uncovered 612 ghost teachers in the state primary schools on government payroll. A review by the state’s committee on...
The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, said on Thursday the state government would prosecute the 1,115 ghost workers uncovered in the last staff verification exercise in...
The Oyo State Government has revealed that it has uncovered 41 employees classified as “No Show”, a euphemism for ghost workers. A statement issued on Wednesday...
The Bauchi State government says it has discovered a total of 715 ghost workers on its payroll and has temporarily stopped paying their salaries while investigation...
Thousands of civil servants on Thursday blocked the entrance gate to the Imo State Government House in Owerri to protest non-payment of salaries. The civil servants...
Imo State government has discovered the existence of ghost workers on its payroll leading to monumental fraud, Governor Hope Uzodinma said in Owerri on Monday. Addressing...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned one Ibrahim Mohammed Ali at the Federal High Court, Kano, for allegedly defrauding a company of...
The Ekiti State Government on Wednesday said it had uncovered the payment of N20 million monthly as salary for 362 ghost workers in Local Governments. The...
The Bauchi State government has revealed that it has lost over N1.062 billion to ghost workers and fake pensioners between June 2016 and January 2020. This...
The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, said on Monday the state government has uncovered 2,116 ghost workers in the payroll of the state’s Ministry of Health....
The Bauchi State government has uncovered no fewer than 396 ghost workers in both the State Government and local government councils. This was disclosed on WednesdayBauchi by...
Justice Tijani Rigime of the Federal High Court, Owerri, Imo State, on Wednesday, ordered the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, to reinstate the sacked chairmen and councilors...
The Niger State government has decried the high level of corruption in the state civil service. This followed the government’s discovery of over N672 million monthly...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered additional 400 ghost workers in Kwara State. The commission disclosed this in a statement on Friday by...
More than 1000 ghost workers have been uncovered in the payroll of Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB). The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic...
The Zamfara State government has discovered no fewer than 200 ghost workers who are currently on the state government’s payroll. This was revealed on Friday in...
The Zamfara State government has uncovered salary payment-related fraud amounting to N216 million. According to the state commissioner for finance, Rabiu Garba Gusau, a 119-year-old man...
All local government education secretaries and their treasurers, as well as directors of primary healthcare in the 20 local government areas of Bauchi state have been...
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has revealed that he introduced biometric capturing of civil servants to end the issue of ghost workers in the state. He...
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that the Federal Government has saved more than $550 million from the removal of names of ghost workers from the pay...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said the Federal Government has saved over N200bn by eliminating ghost workers from its civil service. According to a tweet...
By Olusegun Adeniyi… Because I know my readers very well, the expectation would most likely be that today, I will go after the PADDINGtons in the...
The Kogi State government lost a whooping N213,034,857,280bn to ghost workers in 16 years, the state Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala, has revealed. Okala stated this...
The monthly wage bill of Sagbama Local Government in Bayelsa state has dropped from N200 million to N30 million, it was learnt on Friday. The situation...
The Bayelsa State government says it has uncovered payroll fraud in the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), with the discovery of over 765 illegally employed...
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has directed an investigation into the payrolls of the Air Force, the Navy and the Army by the Continuous Audit...
By Prince Charles Dickson…The blind person who shuts his eyes and says he is asleep; when he was not asleep whom did he see? As...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has busted a network that has defrauded the Federal Government over N1 billion by enrolling about 599 ghost workers...
The battle against ghost workers has received a new ally, as the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) has reportedly detected ghost...
The Bauchi State government has said it has discovered names of eight-year old children as “teachers” on the payroll of the government. This was disclosed by...
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Wednesday disclosed that 11000 more ghost workers had been uncovered in the federal payroll. She revealed this while briefing...
The Senate on Thursday sanctioned the prosecution of top civil servants over the discovery of 23, 000 ghost workers on government payroll reportedly uncovered during the...
The Bank Verification Number (BVN), an initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is not an effort in futility after all, as the policy has helped...
By Sam Ibemere … Kano, the great city of the red-cap wearing Kwankwasiyya troupe is in the news. I do not know what else newspapers live...
In from Ali Smart…. The argument has always been that the civil service across all the tiers of government has an over bloated workforce, which often...
