ghost workers

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) had stopped the pilfering of the country’s treasury with billions of naira saved from maintenance fees payable to banks. The president stated this in Abuja at the 17th National...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the federal government has uncovered fresh 5,000 ghost workers in its efforts to sanitize the federal public service. He said yesterday at the 80th Tabieorar festival of the Church of the Lord Prayer Fellowship worldwide held at Mount Tabieorar...

The Office of the National Security Adviser has uncovered a major fraud involving 29 ghost workers, the Eagle Online reports. The fraud was uncovered following a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari by the The NSA, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) . The ghost workers, have over the...

About 12,609 ghost workers have be uncovered in the payrolls of all the local government areas in Adamawa state. The chairman of the 13-man committee, Maurice Vunoboki, said it was also discovered that 1,405 appointments violated executive approvals, while 2,731 irregular employments did not...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has disclosed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will soon commence the prosecution of the 43,000 persons so far discovered as ghost workers on the payroll of the Federal Government. She added that the Federal Government has...

Tension as ensued in Kogi over reports emanating from the staff verification exercise set up by government, saying the state chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Onuh Edoka is amongst those purportedly declared as ‘ghost workers’. According to DailyTrust, the organised Labour...

The Head of the Continuous Audit team of the Federal Government, Mr Mohammed Dikwa, on Tuesday said N50 billion was saved so far through the audit of security agencies payroll. Dikwa said this in Abuja at a meeting between the Continuous Audit team, Minister of Finance and Heads of Para-Military...

The end has come for ghost workers under the employment of Oyo State as 16, 532 ghost workers have been discovered by the government led by Governor Abiola Ajimobi. This was disclosed at a press briefing by the Secretary to the State Government, Ismail Olalekan Alli, who said that the salaries...

The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, yesterday said the commission had uncovered 37,395 ghost workers on the payroll of the federal civil service. Magu, spoke in Abuja yesterday during an anti-corruption sensitization programme held at the Ministry...

The federal government has discovered another 11,000 ghost workers on its payroll in its second batch of staff audit. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed this yesterday at the end of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. She...

The President Mohammadu Buhari led federal government within 8 months into office has eliminated over 23,000 ghost workers from its pay roll. According to Vanguard, the federal government had saved about N2.293 billion monthly in what should have been paid out to non-existent workers or those...

Anambra State Government says it has discovered 850 ghost workers in the state civil service during routine efforts to identify areas of waste in the state. The State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano said during an interaction with media practitioners in the state said it was part of the internal...

Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun yesterday told Senate Committee on Finance that the 23,000 ghost workers unravelled in the Federal Civil Service would be handed over to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Speaking when she appeared before the committee, the Minister said banks...