The Minister for Finance, Kemi AdeosunIfeanyi Onuba, AbujaThe Federal Government on Tuesday said it has been able to reduce the monthly wage bill of civil servants in Ministries, Departments and agencies from N165bn to N145bn monthly.The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr Mahmoud Dutse gave the figures while speaking with journalists at the sideline of a workshop on cost management.The event was done to sensitise stakeholders on the need for transparency, accountability, prudence and efficiency in the management of government resources.He said the N20bn reduction in monthly wage bill was achieved after an audit conducted by the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit.Dutse said in addition to the monthly savings of N20bn, the sum of N15bn had been saved from reduction in overheads and excessive foreign travels and other allowances paid to civil servantsThis N15bn savings according to him was achieved through the activities of the Efficiency Unit that was set up by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun.Dutse said the federal government is not only interested in cutting cost of governance. but to also get value for the funds allocated for implementation ofgovernment programs.He said, “This workshop is a cost management workshop organised for the Directors of MDAs. Basically, it centered on how we should manage government’s funds better.“As you all know, due to sharp decline in government revenue , we must manage our purse more efficiently .Though the revenue has gone down, expenditure has not gone and this is creating fiscal pressure.

Nice development.

20B that would have gone to some greedy bastards account


And they said Buhari is not working


Eleriibu pipu una never chichumchin


You better start checking your N-Power to see if you qualify for the jobs you claimed Buhari will never create

This APC govt is mad o. No govt has ever owed fg workers the way they are owing. Keep deceiving and fooling yourselves. No pay workers all their promotion arrears and salaries

omogin:
This APC govt is mad o. No govt has ever owed fg workers the way they are owing. Keep deceiving and fooling yourselves. No pay workers all their promotion arrears and salaries

Are you related to lie Mohammed??

omogin:
This APC govt is mad o. No govt has ever owed fg workers the way they are owing. Keep deceiving and fooling yourselves. No pay workers all their promotion arrears and salaries

Liar . . .

Let the government keep deceiving the zombies naa

That's 240 bn per year... That's enough to give 3 Million naira loan to every graduate every year

Buhari can create 80,000 entrepreneurs with this and if channeled well the tax that will come from then will be more than 300bn per year after say 3 years...

We can get people to go into wheat farming, sugar farming, dairy farms, cotton farming, palm fruits farming, cassava flour processing, garri processing, cassava farming, this will substitute import and create competition for force down prices...

Maybe i need the number to the agriculture minister and finance minister

Standing5:
Liar . . .

Dondees like you brought the biggest dondee to be Nigeria's President. Go find out if the President has not just sent virement request to the national Assembly to make up for several shortfalls in the budget for many mdas. Most mdas won't be able to pay Nov and Dec salaries, not to mention several months of ppromotion arrears.

crazymommy:
Are you related to lie Mohammed??

Dondees like you brought the biggest dondee to be Nigeria's President. Go find out if the President has not just sent virement request to the national Assembly to make up for several shortfalls in the budget for many mdas. Most mdas won't be able to pay Nov and Dec salaries, not to mention several months of ppromotion arrears.