The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN said on Friday that 19 of the 36 states of the federation have so far benefitted from the workers’ salary bailout package.

The states that applied for and received various sums from the aid include Kwara, Zamfara, Osun, Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Abia, Adamawa, Ondo, and Kebbi, the CBN states.

Others include Ekiti, Imo, Ebonyi, Ogun, Plateau, Nassarawa, Sokoto, Edo and Oyo which were granted their packages this week.

CBN spokesperson, Ibrahim Mu’azu, said the bailout, which was in line with the recent resolution by the National Economic Council, NEC, was to enable the affected states to pay the backlog of workers’ salary arrears.

The package has a 20-year repayment tenor for all states, except Ogun State, which opted for a 10 year tenor.

Mr. Mu’azu explained that contrary to reports that Ogun state accessed N20 billion from the bailout, the state actually received a total of N18.9 billion.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC had on Thursday pledged to work with the Independent Corruption Practices and related offence Commission, ICPC to monitor the use of the N338 billion total bailout meant for use in paying workers.

The Congress directed its affiliate councils in the states to serve as whistle blowers to report any criminal diversion of bailout funds by the state governments.

The states that benefited from the funds, which the NLC said it would monitor include:

Abia (N14.152bn)
Adamawa( N2.378bn)
Bauchi (N8.60bn)
Bayelsa (N12.85bn)
Benue(N28.013bn)
Borno(N7.680bn)
Cross River(N7.856bn)
Delta( N10.036bn)
Ebonyi(N4.063bn)
Edo(N3.167bn)
Ekiti (N9.604bn)
Enugu (N4.207bn)
Gombe (N16.459bn)
Imo (N26.806bn)
Kastina (N3.304bn)
Kebbi (N0.690bn)
Kogi (N50.842bn)
Kwara (N4.320bn)
Nasarawa (N8.317bn)
Niger (N4.306bn)
Ogun (N20.00bn)
Ondo (N14.686bn)
Osun(N34.988bn)
Oyo( N26.606bn )
Plateau (N5.357bn)
Sokoto (N10.093bn)
Zamfara (N10.02bn)

CUM4WHAT:
NONSENSE

nwannaeto:
I thank God for Anambra state and Peter Obi.

OfoIgbo:


You should be thanking Obiano who has been the governor of Anambra for nearly two years now.
And the projects in Anambra state are still carrying on in a blinding pace with no sign of a slowdown

MyMouth:
My state kogi got the highest! Smh

SlyIg:
God bless my state for not been a part of dis.(Akwa Ibom).

MyMouth:
Even that noisy Fayose sef collect loan! Smh

cronsberg:
Throughout Nigeria's history, i have never seen a state so well positioned and so well placed to be extremely developed than Kogi state with everything a geographical location needs to be fully developed. From Ajaokuta steel, to the large West African ceramics industrial complex, to the confluence of river Niger and Benue, to the ever agile and active populace, to the thousands of square miles of untapped woodland, to the world class Obajana industrial complex, to the massive IPP power plants and many more, yet this very well placed state is disapointingly poor and underdeveloped. The road network of Kogi is a shame to say the least, the pipe borne water and sewage infrastructure is almost non existent, integrated public tranport is also non existent, the state capital Lokoja was recently shown on TVC, it looked like a common local government, a poor one at that, and now the state is trying to borrow 50 billion naira from the FG? of what importance will that be since the state will now spend huge chuncks of its FG allocations for the next 20 years repaying the loans? further depriving the the state of common developement. what a shame

cronsberg:
Throughout Nigeria's history, i have never seen a state so well positioned and so well placed to be extremely developed than Kogi state with everything a geographical location needs to be fully developed. From Ajaokuta steel, to the large West African ceramics industrial complex, to the confluence of river Niger and Benue, to the ever agile and active populace, to the thousands of square miles of untapped woodland, to the world class Obajana industrial complex, to the massive IPP power plants and many more, yet this very well placed state is disapointingly poor and underdeveloped. The road network of Kogi is a shame to say the least, the pipe borne water and sewage infrastructure is almost non existent, integrated public tranport is also non existent, the state capital Lokoja was recently shown on TVC, it looked like a common local government, a poor one at that, and now the state is trying to borrow 50 billion naira from the FG? of what importance will that be since the state will now spend huge chuncks of its FG allocations for the next 20 years repaying the loans? further depriving the the state of common developement. what a shame

MyMouth:
My state kogi got the highest! Smh

tinkinjow:
After the toads will say we don't need oil money. Shame. That's why they want the status square sustained.
yeye dey smell