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Taraba Gov Approves Reinstatement of Over 3,000 Workers Tagged as Ghost Employees

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:00:26 +0000

Agbu Kefas has approved the immediate issuance of fresh appointment letters to more than 3,000 civil servants previously tagged as ghost workers and left without salaries for over one year. The approval followed the State Executive Council meeting chaired by the governor on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. Speaking to journalists in Jalingo on Wednesday, the [...]

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Kano Government Recovers Over N27m from Ghost Workers, Vows Prosecution

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:00:35 +0000

The Kano State Government has recovered more than N27 million from 247 ghost workers, including retirees and deceased individuals, following a payroll audit conducted in March 2025. Musa Tanko, Director of Public Enlightenment at the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, confirmed the development in a statement. He said those implicated in the [...]

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N1.2b saved after identifying Ghost Workers – Governor Alia

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:30:16 +0000

The recent employee verification exercise done on civil servants resulted in a savings of N1.2 billion, according to Benue State Governor Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia. On Friday, at an Extraordinary Stakeholders Meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, the Governor made the announcement. Infostride News readers may remember that on Thursday, the [...]

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12 Nigerian states owe their workers at least one month’s salary as of July 2022

Temitope Nlewemchi — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:10:45 +0000

The organization in its empirical survey across the 36 states of the federation expressed displeasure over certain state governments’ refusal to pay the monthly salaries accruable to civil service workers in their states as and when due. BudgIT, a civic-tech organization on advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance, has revealed that at [...]

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Ghost Workers Discovered In Enugu State

David Folami — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:08:31 +0000

More than 6,280 ghost workers and pensioners have been identified by the Local Government Staff and Pensioner Audit Committee set up by the Governor of Enugu. The ghost workers will be probed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). “A committee headed by the speaker of the state house of assembly [...]

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500 Ghost Workers On FG’s Payroll Have Been Exposed – Garba Shehu

David Folami — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:09:03 +0000

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has revealed that the members of a syndicate who fraudulently put 500 ghost workers on the Federal Government’s payroll have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Shehu, on Tuesday, December 27, 2016, in a statement presented to journalists, said the suspects are already facing trial. He [...]

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Kano State Government Pays 18m Naira Monthly To 1,830 Ghost Street Cleaners

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:51:23 +0000

The Kano State Government has uncovered 1,830 ghost workers out of the 2,490 casual workers engaged as street cleaners by the state Refuse Management and Sanitation Board, resulting in the loss N18.1m to the state government. Kano State Commissioner for Information, Malam Garba Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria [...]

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