I understand that everything is now political in Nigeria and in the Southwest especially where speaking the truth has become a serious challenge.

What is going on in our media houses? What has become of journalism for the ideal society that we all seek? Is every journalist bought over? Why is the Media not shouting itself hoarse on this issue?

It is amazing that social critics like Femi Falana are keeping quiet while this atrocity is going on. Where is Professor Wole Soyinka who is a good friend of the Osun State government? Is he keeping quiet in the face of this tyranny? Where are the Civil Society groups who constantly shout in the press? Are their targets selective? Are they also on the payroll of politicians too? Where are the conscientious people in our society?

Beremx:
Benue state is owing up to 8months salary

Osun state is owing 7months

Ekiti state is owing 4months

And it goes on and on....

How do these governors expect their people to survive please?

Beremx:
Benue state is owing up to 8months salary

Osun state is owing 7months

Ekiti state is owing 4months

And it goes on and on....

How do these governors expect their people to survive please?

The Ekiti State Government has begun the payment of April salary with an assurance that all verified workers would receive their pay before Friday.

The Head of Service, Gbenga Faseluka, said the payment began last Friday with the core civil service comprising Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Faseluka assured that the public service made up of the Teaching Service Commission, Hospitals Management Board as well as other parastatals would be paid before Friday.

He added that workers who could not be verified last week due to observed default in the required documents are to undergo a second round of checks at the designated verification centres.

The Head of Service thanked the workers for their cooperation and understanding.

The Head of Service assured that Governor Ayo Fayose would continue to give priority attention to the welfare of workers even as the present administration has not defaulted in payment of salaries since its emergence in October 2014.

Jmain:


You don't need to drag other states in your lie to cover up for Aregbe shame . . . . .It's terrible . . . . . . . .




http://thenationonlineng.net/new/ekiti-begins-payment-of-april-salary/

Beremx:
Jmaine,I have a friend who is a lecturer with a doctorate degree lecturing at EKSU. They haven't been paid for 4months now and he has been complaining bitterly. Problably some civil servants have been paid while others haven't.

Abeg,I don't have strength for any argument.

Jmain:


It's not about having strength for argument it is about making bold claims without factual proof . . . . . . .

Samuel Ceezhar: A serious analysis of Osun state’s allocation and wage bill (the two versions)

June 4, 2015



Permit me to use this medium to analyze the speech (here) of the governor of Osun-Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at the inauguration of state house of assembly members. As we all know, speech analysis is the “in-thing” now, so, flow with me as we do this “trekking.”

I intend to use available data for this exposition after which you can make an informed conclusion on our case. You see, I live and work in this great state and I know first-hand, the effects of the financial crisis. The figures are from our dear budgIT, oagf and fmf.

It is straightforward: type in your stat(for budgIT) and year of choice, the year’s FAAC allocations will appear. For the other two, type in the month and year, the entire allocations for all the 3 tiers of government appears. I explain all this not because I think you are slow but knowing the social media peeps, one has to be thorough.

The figure you really need from all those numbers is the NET ALLOCATION. I believe now, we can begin the exercise.

ISSUES TO NOTE:

The governor in his maiden address to the house said the total allocations to the state from FAAC, IGR and other accruals are equal to N204 billion. Of this, FAAC and others excluding IGR amount to N108.3 billion.

2010: The Year of Oranmiyan

The governor came in in November and he declared the total allocation for the 2 months to be N4.2 billion. He also said the wage bill is N3.6 billion with a net gain of N573 million.

From the table below whose figures are obtained from the aforementioned sites (at least, we should be able to trust @seunonigbinde’s numbers), you will see it is different.



The total here is N6.0 billion, no? If you deduct wage bill of N3.6 bn from N6 bn, ‘you go definitely get answer wey pass the net gain.’ I am not an accountant but I try to trust my calculator.

2011: The Beginning of the Rule

Ogbeni said throughout this year, he got N29.9 billion, had a wage bill of N25.8 billion and a net gain of N4 billion- remember, his words, not mine. Again, let us turn to the trio:





You will find that summing these gives you N48.2 billion with an awesome net gain well above the one above. Anyways, as they say on #Twitter street, #netgainnooni.

2012: The Year of the First of the Deficit

My amiable, quintessential, articulate and ever conscious (sorry, I finished from OAU) Ogbeni said we got N28.4 billion and expended N31.6 billion leaving a deficit of N3.2 billion – the first of its kind.

I am seriously channeling @DoubleEph. Come with me to our table:



2013: The Second Year of Our Beloved Deficit

Now, I sincerely hope you are getting my message. For this year, we understand that N26.4bn accrued to the state out of which N36.9bn was expended giving us a ‘whopping’ N10.4 billion deficit. Turn up with me to the table:



Adding them together gives us N44.7 billion. If you remove the wage bill from this number (or vice-versa), there is no way you will have a deficit! I can understand if by now you are confused, trust me; I thought the people from my village have upgraded their operating system-like they did that rich guy who turned to a monk.

2014: The Year of Oil, its Crash, and Revenue Drop

To cut the long story short, “our statutory allocation fell further to N19.3 billion and by which time we were already defaulting on some of our obligations on emoluments, which had also dropped to N22.4 billion, but still left us with a deficit of N3 billion.”



Before we continue, you’ll notice the asterisks. On ‘oagf’s site, the breakdown page for the states were absent. See here, here, and here. In fact, on BudgIT website, 2014 allocations ended in June. For the month with 2 asterisks, they made a mistake of writing “allocation of October 2013 shared in November 2014-here. Having done that, let’s get back to the numbers.

Now, I know we do not have figures for 3 months, but is it not amazing that without those figures, summation still gives N27.4 billion! This is what I call amazeballs. It means we would have comfortably paid the wage bill of #22.4 billion.

Before putting my pen back in the basket of strange accounting, brethren, let us summarize the first main point. If you add all the figures from the tables, the amount accruable to the State of Osun (excluding IGR) from the year of our Lord 2010-2014 is #174.1 billion.



I am not trying to elicit anything nor am I forming opposition. As @ayosogunro said, there are two types of people in a polity: party faithfuls’ and citizens. I belong to the latter. My submission is this; obviously, there are two different figures here. Which one is true and which is false? If we say we are progressives, conservatives, fencists, etc., there has to be a converging point for us where true data is given and relied on. This definitely is confusing and I am sure people will take sides but if we are to be #activecitizens, we need to start asking serious questions about the figures we are given.

Personally, I think the governor owes us a breakdown of the allocations, debt profile and its servicing, government projects (completed, ongoing and untouched). This topic of salaries is a hot one as we are not the only one but if the figures above are true, then the governor of the State of Osun, @raufaregbesola, has no excuse.

I conclude with the words of @elnathan when tweeps were comparing FIFA with Nigeria. With these few points of mine, I hope I have been able to confuse you and not convince you of the need to not be just commentators or “mentioners” but people who hold government officials accountable.

Sorry sir, I do not want to plagiarize. Thanks for your time.

Open data in government

The rationale behind open government data can be considered as twofold.[13] First, advocates contend that making government data available to the public in open formats increases government transparency and accountability. Second, open data should enable third parties to leverage the potential of government data through the development of applications and services that address public and private demands.

Several national governments have created web sites to distribute a portion of the data they collect. It is a concept for a collaborative project in municipal Government to create and organize Culture for Open Data or Open government data. A list of over 200 local, regional and national open data catalogues is available on the open source datacatalogs.org project, which aims to be a comprehensive list of data catalogues from around the world. Prominent examples include:

open-data.europa.eu - European Commission Data Portal.
Ghana Open Data Initiative - Ghana government open-data website, GODI. Launched in February 2012.
data.go.jp - Japanese Government open data website, launched in Dec 20, 2013.
Additionally, other levels of government have established open data websites. There are many government entities pursuing Open Data in Canada. Data.gov lists the sites of a total of 31 US states, 13 cities, and > 150 agencies and subagencies providing open data; e.g. the state of Maryland, the state of California, US.[14]

The United Nations has an open data website that publishes statistical data from Member States and UN Agencies:[15]

The European Commission has created two portals for the European Union: the EU Open Data Portal which gives access to open data from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies [16] and the PublicData portal[17] that provides datasets from local, regional and national public bodies across Europe.

It is amazing that social critics like Femi Falana are keeping quiet while this atrocity is going on. Where is Professor Wole Soyinka who is a good friend of the Osun State government? Is he keeping quiet in the face of this tyranny?

kingbasil:
Peeps just keep messing up year in year out all in the name of living the life. Hypocrisy and selfishness is the key word if you intend swimming with them big fishes.

When will the average Nigerian men stand up to fight for what is rightfully theirs? Must we live and insist on living under mental slavery?

If we fail to fight for our sense of belonging which is a place to call home, what then is our purpose of existing in the first place?

Beremx:
Well,I just gave you a proof. You can go verify from any lecturer from the state university.

Jmain:


You must be kidding, how can your word be proof which will most likely be lies as ever . . . . .

Beremx:
ok

#notimeforsillyarguments

Jmain:


Then don't make silly, asinine remarks you can't back up when called upon . . . . It will only lead to your embarrassment . . . . .

Thank you . . . . . . . . . . . .