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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Still Working:
Ghosts of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad
Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used t
Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short
ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out
in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the
workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used t
workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used to stay.
Still Working
Ghosts of Transcontinental Railroad Chinese
Workers is one of eighteen stories
in the U.S.History based True
Ghost Stories That Teach Historically Based Stories with Content Area Connections by Lonnie Dai Zovi.
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.