bio777:
Good news!....Dec salary+1month....ASALGA, UBE.

U don see money, u don rest.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Y'ALL!!!!!
Thank God we made it. Twale for Baba GOD!

[quote author=bio777 post=29371319]Good news!....Dec salary+1month....ASALGA, UBE.....Stanbic.[Have U received salary arrears before? Pls respond.]

marcodura:
Have U received salary arrears before? Pls respond.

Yes.

joyblinks:


U don see money, u don rest.

It's like that na...Pepper rested!!

IKEM wishes you,
1Year of FAVOUR,
12 months of UPLIFTMENT,
54 weeks of HAPPINESS,
365 days of BREAKTHROUGH,
8,760 hours of MERCY,
526,600 minutes of GODSLOVE,
31,536,000 seconds of JOY.

WELCOME TO 2015, it's your year of HIGHER LEVEL

Happy new year to all teachers with distinction

So invariably, there is a system of payment of our arrears? Na wa o.So we can't all be paid until our arrears run out.Some ppl hv to be paid b4 others.Hmmmmm,.....Let the will of God be done.

pls d holiday xtend till monday?

[gold360 post=29410936]pls d holiday extend till monday?[No,Work resume on Monday 5th of January 2015.

Adola1:
[gold360 post=29410936]pls d holiday extend till monday?[No,Work resume on Monday 5th of January 2015.

tnx

if dz yeye banks cn send statement of acct alert today.they cn equaly pay 2day inspite of d public holiday

gold360:
if dz yeye banks cn send statement of acct alert today.they cn equaly pay 2day inspite of d public holiday

Don't go there, they won't pay till next week.

gold360:
if dz yeye banks cn send statement of acct alert today.they cn equaly pay 2day inspite of d public holiday

The statement of account u just received was sent to u by a programmed computer system software. Don‘t expect salary till next week.

[quote author=Fiafiad post=29423173] The statement of account u just received was sent to u by a programmed computer system software. Don‘t expect salary till next week.

chai..jux dnt undastand y they gav us d impresion dat we wil b paid dz week..we wuld had bin mor prudent wit our spendins..God dey sha

School resume on monday.

O boy no money to pay transport to my station o. I think sey dem go pay december salary o.

lawisong:
O boy no money to pay transport to my station o. I think sey dem go pay december salary o.

hahahahahaha......welcome to Nigeria.....thought I heard someone advicing we spend wisely

As crude oil price continues its
descent, and the economy falters,
strong indications have emerged
that workers in both private and
public sectors are faced with mass
retrenchment.
Stakeholders in both sectors, who
spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday,
painted a gloomy picture of the
economy and the prospects of
workers in the new year. They based
their projections on recent
happenings in the Nigerian and
global economies.
Oil prices have been in steep decline
since June 2014 as a result of slow
demand growth and the United
States’ oil boom, which has
increased supply. The global oil
benchmark, Brent, against which
Nigerian oil is priced, on Tuesday,
tumbled below $58 per barrel,
hitting its lowest levels since May
2009.
PUNCH had exclusively reported on
Tuesday that at least 70,000 civil
servants in 30 ministries,
departments and agencies of the
Federal Government had yet to
receive up to three months salaries.
While the Federal Government is
believed to owe workers of the
Ministry of Labour and Productivity
salary arrears ranging from one to
three months, 11 state governments
could not pay December salary to
workers. Three of the states –
Benue, Plateau and Osun – have
been reported to owe workers three
months’ salary arrears.
In separate interviews with SUNDAY
PUNCH, stakeholders expressed
fears that companies and public
institutions were planning to
address the downturn in the
economy with cost-cutting
measures and downsizing.
On Friday, the Petroleum and
Natural Gas Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria gave
indications to this effect when it
raised the alarm that companies,
especially petroleum companies,
had plans to retrench staff.
According to the association, non-
core employees of oil firms in the
country may be asked to quit their
jobs, if the fall in oil prices persists
till April or May.
The Media Officer, PENGASSAN, Mr.
Babatunde Oke, told SUNDAY
PUNCH that employers had grown
weary of the slump.
“The effect might be severe if it
continues till May because some
employers are already complaining
that they may need to shed weight,
if it persists till then. Of course, it
will affect contract staff, if the slump
persists,” Oke added.
Similarly, the Deputy President
(South), National Association of
Small Medium Enterprises, Mr.
Orimadegun Agboade, stated that
retrenchment had already begun in
some sectors.
He said, “We closed for the year
earlier than usual. Ordinarily, we
take a break close to Christmas. But
with the way things are right now,
many companies closed two weeks
before the normal closing date.
“Based on recent events, federal,
state and local governments still
owe salaries of up to three months.
It is an indication that things are not
right at all. In fact, many of us are
afraid of what will happen.”
Agboade stated that the current
foreign exchange rate is the
harbinger of the gale of
retrenchments that would sweep
workers out of the manufacturing
sector.
“For instance, I am a manufacturer
of medicine; I received a notice from
my bank two weeks ago that the
Federal Government had placed an
embargo on all letters of credit. The
implication of this is that
immediately we run out of the raw
materials we have now, the hope of
getting more will be slim, or it won’t
come on time.
“In the pharmaceutical industry,
where I belong, close to 98 per cent
of our raw materials are imported. A
lot of companies are already cutting
salaries,” Agboade added.
The NASME Deputy President
further said the scale of
retrenchment could be as high as 25
per cent. He warned that if things
were not sorted out quickly, it could
reach 50 per cent.
Similarly, the Chairman, National
Association of Small Scale
Industrialists, Lagos State chapter,
Mr. Segun Kuti-George, said the fact
that the foreign exchange rate was
not in equilibrium with the naira
was a sign that mass retrenchment
might be closer than expected.
“We have more naira chasing fewer
dollars now. Also, the monetary
policy is moving from 12 per cent to
13 per cent higher interest rate. We
now have a higher rate of exchange,
which inherently means inflation.
“It means that prices of imported
and locally-made goods will go up,
which would mean lower demand
and, therefore, lesser profits for
companies. This may then lead to
layoffs,” he explained.
The Director-General, Lagos
Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Muda Yusuf, predicted that the year
would be challenging for
businesses, as the cost of
production would increase, while
purchasing power would decline.
He explained that businesses would
have to look at all possible options
for survival, including cost reduction
in other areas. The process of
reducing costs, according to him,
may result in cutting the number of
employees.
At the presentation of the 2015
budget to the National Assembly,
the Minister of Finance and
Coordinating Minister of the
Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
had announced more austerity
measures. She had explained that
the measures were aimed at
cushioning the economic impact of
the drop in oil prices.
She added that the measures would
be implemented from the beginning
of the second quarter of 2015 to
boost the ratio of non-oil revenues
to oil revenues. The Federal
Government’s 2015 budget
estimates of about N4.3trillion was
planned with a $65 oil price
benchmark.
Workers vow to resist retrenchment
Meanwhile, workers have threatened
a showdown in the event of mass
sacking. Officials of the organised
labour who spoke to SUNDAY
PUNCH warned the federal and
states governments against laying
off workers.
The Association of Senior Civil
Servants of Nigeria told SUNDAY
PUNCH that it had mobilised
members nationwide to resist any
planned retrenchment of workers by
the Federal Government.
The Secretary-General of ASCSN,
Mr. Alade Lawal, in an interview
with one of our correspondents on
Friday in Abuja, said workers should
not be made to bear the burden of
the country’s distressed economy.
Lawal said, “As for the issue of
resorting to retrenchment as a result
of the drop in the price of crude oil in
the international market, labour will
surely resist it.
“We have already sensitised and
mobilised our members on the
matter. We workers did not create
the problem and we will surely not
allow the ruling elite to use us as
tools to be dumped because of the
temporary setback in the pricing of
oil.
“When the going was good, we were
left unattended to. Now that the
chicken has come home to roost,
they, and not innocent workers,
should bear the brunt.
“We are fully prepared and on red
alert, waiting for signals from the
two labour centres in the event of
any attempt to retrench workers as
part of recently introduced austerity
measures.”
Also speaking, the President-
General of Trade Union Congress of
Nigeria, who is also the President of
ASCSN, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama, said
the TUC would ensure that any
attempt to retrench worker was
resisted.
He said, “TUC would resist any
attempt to retrench workers; all the
definitions of resistance put together
would be done, including protests
and strikes.
“Let’s fight corruption, let’s fight oil
theft, let’s improve our Internally
Generated Revenue, let’s be prudent
in our expenditure, develop our
infrastructure and tourism potential;
those are the things that would give
us money, not sacking workers.
“We shall resist any attempt to
retrench workers. They can’t try
retrenchment because we shall
resist it out rightly.”
On his part, the General Secretary,
NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, warned
that the NLC would meet to take an
“appropriate decision”, should any
state government decide to sack
workers.
He said, “Our position, as already
stated, is that there are adjustments
that government can make by
cutting the cost of governance.
“We have already warned that they
shouldn’t allow workers to be
victims of the downturn in the oil
price.
“We believe that the down-turn
should not be used to sack workers,
they should cut excess waste and
the cost of governance. We have a
situation where a governor has a
retinue of excess aides and
entourages; all these can be cut.
These are areas where we feel
adjustments should be made.”
Across Nigeria, state chapters of the
organised labour unions also
warned that retrenchment would be
resisted.
In separate interviews with our
correspondent in Ilorin, the
Chairman, Nigerian Labour
Congress, Kwara State chapter, Mr.
Farouk Akanbi, and his Trade Union
Congress counterpart, Mr. Olumoh
Kolawole, stated that workers in the
state would resist any attempt by
the state government to downsize.
Akanbi said, “We do not believe that
it will be a good thing for any
government to retrench workers. We
are going to resist any retrenchment
of workers because we know that
the cost of governance in Nigeria is
where we have problem. It is not in
terms of the payment of the workers’
salaries.

[quote author=gold360 post=29483971]As crude oil price continues its
descent, and the economy falters,
strong indications have emerged
that workers in both private and
public sectors are faced with mass
retrenchment.
Stakeholders in both sectors, who
spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday,
painted a gloomy picture of the
economy and the prospects of
workers in the new year. They based
their projections on recent
happenings in the Nigerian and
global economies.
Oil prices have been in steep decline
since June 2014 as a result of slow
demand growth and the United
States’ oil boom, which has
increased supply. The global oil
benchmark, Brent, against which
Nigerian oil is priced, on Tuesday,
tumbled below $58 per barrel,
hitting its lowest levels since May
2009.
PUNCH had exclusively reported on
Tuesday that at least 70,000 civil
servants in 30 ministries,
departments and agencies of the
Federal Government had yet to
receive up to three months salaries.
While the Federal Government is
believed to owe workers of the
Ministry of Labour and Productivity
salary arrears ranging from one to
three months, 11 state governments
could not pay December salary to
workers. Three of the states –
Benue, Plateau and Osun – have
been reported to owe workers three
months’ salary arrears.
In separate interviews with SUNDAY
PUNCH, stakeholders expressed
fears that companies and public
institutions were planning to
address the downturn in the
economy with cost-cutting
measures and downsizing.
On Friday, the Petroleum and
Natural Gas Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria gave
indications to this effect when it
raised the alarm that companies,
especially petroleum companies,
had plans to retrench staff.
According to the association, non-
core employees of oil firms in the
country may be asked to quit their
jobs, if the fall in oil prices persists
till April or May.
The Media Officer, PENGASSAN, Mr.
Babatunde Oke, told SUNDAY
PUNCH that employers had grown
weary of the slump.
“The effect might be severe if it
continues till May because some
employers are already complaining
that they may need to shed weight,
if it persists till then. Of course, it
will affect contract staff, if the slump
persists,” Oke added.
Similarly, the Deputy President
(South), National Association of
Small Medium Enterprises, Mr.
Orimadegun Agboade, stated that
retrenchment had already begun in
some sectors.
He said, “We closed for the year
earlier than usual. Ordinarily, we
take a break close to Christmas. But
with the way things are right now,
many companies closed two weeks
before the normal closing date.
“Based on recent events, federal,
state and local governments still
owe salaries of up to three months.
It is an indication that things are not
right at all. In fact, many of us are
afraid of what will happen.”
Agboade stated that the current
foreign exchange rate is the
harbinger of the gale of
retrenchments that would sweep
workers out of the manufacturing
sector.
“For instance, I am a manufacturer
of medicine; I received a notice from
my bank two weeks ago that the
Federal Government had placed an
embargo on all letters of credit. The
implication of this is that
immediately we run out of the raw
materials we have now, the hope of
getting more will be slim, or it won’t
come on time.
“In the pharmaceutical industry,
where I belong, close to 98 per cent
of our raw materials are imported. A
lot of companies are already cutting
salaries,” Agboade added.
The NASME Deputy President
further said the scale of
retrenchment could be as high as 25
per cent. He warned that if things
were not sorted out quickly, it could
reach 50 per cent.
Similarly, the Chairman, National
Association of Small Scale
Industrialists, Lagos State chapter,
Mr. Segun Kuti-George, said the fact
that the foreign exchange rate was
not in equilibrium with the naira
was a sign that mass retrenchment
might be closer than expected.
“We have more naira chasing fewer
dollars now... Hmmmm. Wahala dey ooo!

our man Buhari is coming to our state let us join hands together and welcome him...... APC CHANGE. Every body buy broom so we can sweep those people pple tat wants to revise our employment out. if u like ur job do as I say.

Caringpro:
our man Buhari is coming to our state let us join hands together and welcome him...... APC CHANGE. Every body buy broom so we can sweep those people pple tat wants to revise our employment out. if u like ur job do as I say.

76 years old Buhari.....abeg abeg make I hear word. Make all these old men go sidon for gutter.

Happy and prosperous new year to everybody.

Has resumption date been postponed

lindoski:
Has resumption date been postponed

No.

come, this pple no wan pay dec sal and bonus? but they are happy to detail me to work, ok na, we wil c hw it goes, mek 2day finish first

Sum pple r jst posting "scary tales" here , let me say that if u bliv dat nyesom wike will sack u wen he bcoms governor den he will, if u bliv dat government will retrench u then they will wat so ever u bliv will come to past for u diz year ... I blive I'm moving higher in diz job and I'll get to the peak of my career through diz job , God will not bring us to birth and not let us be born.
By d way wia is our December salary, our bonus and arrears Who know !

wao, so alerts for dec has seized. they wll pay some pple and leave others. not fair

Today is gone with no alert na waooh, let's see how tomorrow will be like ... This is what happens When a country like Nigeria with so much potential natural/human resources depends only on CRUDE OIL as a source of foreign exchange and when a state depends only on federal allocation to survive and pay workers . Its a pity .
A failed country ! A failed state !!
Nigeria I hail thee.

Its election time,government hasn't even paid December salary talkless of arrears,God help us cos which money r we going to use for tp n feedin to sch dis month?

Relax: from 2day to Friday.