Sentences with phrase «ghost workers be-devilling»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

«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 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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

When he does eventually leave the House of Commons the entire chamber will be worse off without this worker's son made good — perched in his trademark tweed jacket on the front corner of the Labour benches, belligerently arguing a point when others have long given up the ghost.

They paid salaries to ghosts, hawks and genuine workers and gave Lokoja water to drink.

But the film has even weirder angles to it than that: how the old woman eventually turns out to be a ghost of some sort, and the how the leavening mysterious female presence offers a counterpoint to the broadly macho old - man ghost that offers Alvin and his fellow road worker, Lance (Emile Hirsch), drinks and, by extension, tempting them to indulge in their inner macho selves.

A paranormal researcher (Melissa McCarthy), a physicist (Kristen Wiig), a nuclear engineer (Kate McKinnon) and a subway worker (Leslie Jones) try to rid New York of ghosts that can possess humans.

Two films on Syria's civil war made the cut — Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts, about the ISIS takeover of Raqqa, and Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo, about courageous civil defense workers in that city.

And despite the criticism over being the Ghostbuster who was black and not a scientist — like Ernie Hudson in the original — Jones is the film's biggest breath of fresh air as the street-wise transit worker who joins the team after encountering a nasty ghost in a subway tunnel.

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But the ghost of the original owner kept chasing away all workers.

Ghost hunters swear the building is haunted, particularly the seventh floor where workers regularly report hearing children's laughter when no one is present.

Back in September, most of its workers were moved over to Ghost Games UK to work on Need For Speed — with that studio suffering its own round of layoffs just a few months later.

The 2009 recipient of the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, he has published three books, Men Only (2009), Country Girls (2010) and At Home / Ghost Towns (2011), which focus, respectively on a hostel for male migrant workers in Johannesburg, gay communities in the rural districts of his home province and small towns in South Africa that have either been half - emptied by migration or abandoned altogether as the country transforms.

A survey of 4,000 workers found 60 % of job applicants who had an interview were «ghosted» by potential employers, and 75 % who applied to jobs using various resources never heard back from the employer.