Sentences with phrase «ghost workers»

So, we want him to stop this because this is not the only way to stop ghost workers and it shouldn't be the last.

Speaking on the ongoing screening of state and local government workers, the governor said that all sorts of tricks were devised to shortchange the workers, describing as worst, the scourge of ghost workers in the civil service.

Undertaking a proper biometric - based payroll audit to eliminate ghost workers as well as implement biometric based payment system for all public sector workers to deal with fraud in government payroll.

Nine persons were on Wednesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly being responsible for several ghost workers on Federal Government's payroll...

Kogi State Government lost N213 billion to 18, 211 ghost workers in the past 13 years, the state Auditor - General, Mr Okala Yusuf, has said.

d. Dealing effectively with corruption in the management of public finances, especially by bringing to a halt the unbridled resort to restricted tendering and sole sourcing e. Undertaking a proper biometric - based payroll audit to eliminate ghost workers as well as implement biometric based payment system for all public sector workers to deal with fraud in government payroll.

Transparency International observed the Jonathan administration's fight against the corruption in Nigeria's fertilizer procurement regime, the use of technology to remove 50,000 Federal ghost workers and the speed at which the then President fired ministers accused of corruption or conflict of interests.

The party said it believed that the streamlining of all public sector workers salaries through the IPPIS would greatly reduce public funds wastage, especially cases of ghost workers be-devilling the public sector.

«Ghost workers which we prefer to call Payroll clean - up has been very successful and the continuous audit unit at the FG level will continue to monitor and improve our efforts there.

The fraudsters were alleged to have colluded with one another to collect ghost workers» salaries and entitlements from different ministries.

Bamikole Omishore, a media aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki has spoken for the first time since he was accused of alleged ghost worker scam.

Reno Omokri also said that, «It is hypocritical for a govt that fights ghost workers to have a ghost President.

He also stated that the government had succeeded in weeding out 50,000 ghost workers from its payroll in the last two years, while the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged 17 suspects to court for allegedly contributing to the crime.

Fought corruption at source with the introduction of IPPIS technology that eventually eliminated 50,000 ghost workers on the Federal Government payroll.

According to it, IPPIS has recorded astounding success in the timely payment of salaries and identification of ghost workers.

The FG has also established the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit to clean up Federal payroll and pension systems across our ministries, departments and agencies and this has saved the FG over N200b by eliminating ghost workers.

Better jack who plays his heart out for the team and gets injured than players like Metersacker who is a ghost worker at arsenal always covered by the boss,

The governor who described the number as over-bloated had also vowed to fish out ghost workers that may have characterized it.

Nigeria's Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan - Ali has revealed that 20,000 ghost workers have been removed from the ministry's payroll.

The Minister has played leading roles in the development of various cost cutting initiatives through the pursuit of carefully thought out policies aimed at promoting transparency in the payment process, drastic reviews of the procurement process, and the sanitisation of the public - sector payroll system which led to the elimination of huge number of ghost workers.

Bringing the three former chairmen in, was to enable him stabilize the Local Government Administration in the state, and you know that there is a committee that was constituted to look into the Local Government Affairs in terms of ghost workers and other issues.

Sen. Dino Melaye (APC - Kogi West), who spoke on behalf of the party at a Press Briefing held in Abuja on Friday, said that staff audit the world over was a periodic exercise to monitor and evaluate public servants for promotions, retirements, new employment opportunities and elimination of ghost workers.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission says it is set to arraign a civil servant and some bank officials for an alleged fraud involving 38 ghost workers.

Ken Ofori - Atta, who was appointed after President Nana Akufo - Addo took office in January, said the measures being taken by the government included rooting out ghost workers and ensuring all state contracts went to public tender.

Ken Ofori - Atta, who was appointed after President Nana Akufo - Addo took office in January, said the measures being taken by the government included rooting out ghost workers and ensuring...

I'm not against eradication of ghost workers but it shouldn't be done to the detriment of the people.»

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, was queried on ghost workers, continuous borrowing and why so much was being spent on one per cent of the population that form the government.

The EFCC said he was arrested after the Ministry of Finance petitioned the agency in February 2016 requesting for «payroll fraud investigation» as part of efforts to unravel various techniques used by fraudsters to defraud the Nigerian government by way of ghost workers.

At the federal level, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, was reported in October 2016 to have announced that the Ministry of Finance had uncovered 33,000 «ghost workers» from the Federal Government payroll and as a result was saving N23bn monthly.

And in July 2017, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo while speaking at the 5th Annual Christopher Kolade Lecture in Lagos was reported to have put the number of the uncovered «ghost workers» at the federal level to be 60,000.

It was reported in May 2017 that Sokoto State alone expunged 13,415 «ghost workers» from their payroll; Benue State was in June 2017 reported to have begun investigation into who were behind the 2,500 «ghost workers» on its payroll; Enugu State was reported just last month to have removed over 6,200 «ghost workers» from its payroll.

Following the report of the uncovered N118bn salaries paid to 46,639 «ghost workers» in 2014 by the implementation of the Integrated Payment Personal Information System in 215 Ministries Departments and Agencies, more recent cases have been uncovered.

The Office of the National Security Adviser has uncovered a major fraud involving 29 ghost workers.

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday blamed state governments and employers for the ghost workers» syndrome in the country's public service, noting that once the computer system used to capture the bio-metric data of workers was compromised, the data collected became unreliable.

Even if you are under 3 employees, go ahead and get a ghost worker compensation insurance policy and build your experience rating... do not get 2 - 3 years down the road, hire that third employee, and suddenly get faced with astronomical workers compensation insurance bills.