₦airaland Forum

gurunlocker:
The kind corruption wey dey go on under this administration, devil self go fear...

This stuff has got nothing to do with this administration... It's not a new thing.


P. S - I'm neither trying to justify the payment scheme nor absolve the government of corruption.

caleboxylic:
This is poor considering that they generate forex for the country with a risk.

Compare what they pay to them with Total, Nlng etc, you will see they earn less.

Their salaries should be reviewed upward to accommodate the risk they take in regulating our upstream sector.

The organisation is top heavy, they should not have so many people at the top earning that high, because at the end of the day a lot of their core functions are still outsourced to private contractors as a means of political patronage. Also its ethnic profile is skewed in favour of a particular section of the country.

Dasuks:
That's alarmist. No need to feel bad for anybody.

This admin is very irresponsible with the oil exploration venture. More money has been pumped into those northern basins than in previous govts. The cover story is to diversify the resource base.... add reserves and production from other basins. But u shld know that exploration contracts go to someone's companies. Easier way to make money doing seismic here and there and reporting hydrocarbon deposits. Millions of USD for doing what? Lol.

U see it's all a joke because when marketing Naija basins abroad the NNPC itself focuses on Niger delta onshore and shallow offshore. Deep offsore Niger delta is picked up by the massive companies and in some cases the dahomey basin as well.

The IOCs are sometimes given inland basin commitments but never act on it and the nnpc never complains... that's the trick. They know it's pointless.

The Niger that everybody talks abiut has barely 200 million barrels in reserves. Theoretically if they pumped oil like us it will finish in less than 100 days. Lol.

Niger Produces less than 20k barrels a day. For comparison sake, akwa ibom does 550k rivers and delta roughly 350k and Bayelsa about 300 k barrels a day. And IOCs keep finding multibillion barrel reserves in those states. That is, new finds separate from current production and equal to the entirety of the reserves in Chad Niger Cameroon etc.

Borno businessmen like Indimi never pick up any chad basin projects. He is jejely building his firm with akwa ibom oil (mind u he does work well with the communities n chiefs and they seem to enjoy his presence). Danjuma doesn't go near the central inland basins (bida etc ) but is firmly entrenched in akpo and egina (clode to andoni).

Even the most northern NNPC oga knows the real asset base of his company. The LNG, GTL, Gas to power and upstream strengths of his company lies in particular Niger delta states. They are not going to be able to feed 100 million ppl on phantom oil in whatever contraption they come up with. Or oil from Niger that cant even supply itself.

See Chad itself with actual production capacity topped 190k barrels a day in 2005 and not does only 90k a day with a very acidic and heavy crude blend that sells at a discount to brent.... alakija's agbami field alone with chevron is doing 190k and not stopped. Till today. Just agbami has more oil than chad and niger combined in entirety (production and reserves).

The tomfoolery of this regime to use exploration contracts to make money is only sad because it takes away from nnpcs actual role as a JV operator (majority 60%) that is supposed to be leading the way on exploration of its proven reserves. Then again... whatever. Na naija go spoil itself with him own hand.

Nigerian niger delta production stats

1958- 5000 bopd
By 1966- 420000 bopd
1970- 1 million bopd

Since 1973 at least- 2 million bopd..

It is by far the most prolific production profile in Africa. Only matched by Libya. Angola obly reached 2 million in the oast 15 years. See how long nnpc has been doing same? Dont get too alarmist on these guys. Theyre pulling a fast one. But they wont be there forever.

Hopefully sanity prevails 2023.

If not ask al Turabi's followers in Sudan: if someone predicted Heglig for them in the 80s, would they have believed ?
Callousness gets u no where. Naija is less than a century old. U might be shocked to see what it turns out to be in 40 years. Lol.

Thank you.

Hello sir.

You seemed to be knowledgeable in this field and going from your moniker, you are either working in the oil & gas industry or you own an oil well as well.

Are you related to Dasuki? No offense pls.

INSTANTCASH345:
Hello sir.

You seemed to be knowledgeable in this field and going from your moniker, you are either working in the oil & gas industry or you own an oil well as well.

Are you related to Dasuki? No offense pls.

Jokes man. Nope not related to Dasuki. Ahh the moniker was toward something else not the Dasuki name.

Nah Im not necessarily in the O and G. Actually all this info is available to the public my dude. You can check it for urself.

Just dont feed into anything alarmist. As much as ppl try to act all imperious and commanding, the slightest crisis exposes how weak they all are.. so just do ur thing and allow Naija do its. Keep ur eyes on the devts. But remove emotions. Helps a lot.

Dasuks:
Jokes man. Nope not related to Dasuki. Ahh the moniker was toward something else not the Dasuki name.

Nah Im not necesaarily in the O and G. Actually all this info is available to the public my dude. You can check it for urself.

Just dont feed into anything alarmist. As much as ppl try to act all imperious and commanding, the slightest crisis exposes how weak they all are.. so just do ur thing and allow Naija do its. Keep ur eyes on the devts. But remove emotions. Helps a lot.

No. Am not a kid bro to believe an ordinary Nigerian will store all those infos in his memory when we have really more challenging things to think about.

Even if am to write an essay, it won't be more than 150 words on this stuff compared to your long essay written.

I have been hearing and watching the O &G for the past 3 decades now and there is no change, it's however getting worse by each decade.

liar. these salaries are more than what the private firms earn. 71 million a year in dollars is more than 200,000usd
i hear one google engineer for lagos dey get 700,000k a month. thats a private firm.

caleboxylic:
This is poor considering that they generate forex for the country with a risk.

Compare what they pay to them with Total, Nlng etc, you will see they earn less.

Their salaries should be reviewed upward to accommodate the risk they take in regulating our upstream sector.

Some privilege few are really just cashing out in this country...

The HR Dept in DPR need to find the snitch that leaked this info and have the person dealt with. In Govt circles, this is standard knowledge. DPR have always been well renumerated due to their O & G status.

INSTANTCASH345:
No. Am not a kid bro to believe an ordinary Nigerian will store all those infos in his memory when we have really more challenging things to think about.

Even if am to write an essay, it won't be more than 150 words on this stuff compared to your long essay written.

I have been hearing and watching the O &G for the past 3 decades now and there is no change, it's however getting worse by each century.

Dont mind the guy...he works in the O&G, majorly upstream.
Who stores acidic heavy crude, daily production figures n challenges in drilling exploration in his brain. Dasuks,

karkinase:
Dont mind the guy...he works in the O&G, majorly upstream.
Who stores acidic heavy crude, daily production figures n challenges in drilling exploration in his brain. Dasuks,

Oya I claim it my brother. This 'by force', na good 'by force'.

karkinase:
Dont mind the guy...he works in the O&G, majorly upstream.
Who stores acidic heavy crude, daily production figures n challenges in drilling exploration in his brain. Dasuks,

You are right. I checked his profile and found out that he is from the North.

ALL his threads are based on northern topics and stories.

He must be the son to that Dasuki guy or related. Don't you see why he is against my post?

He is enjoying himself... Let them enjoy while it lasts.

This piece was written out of ignorance and sensationalism.

Global equity when it comes to salary etc. Is a dream. And no time in Nigeria will there be equal pay for all staff of the Government. Not even the oil companies pay themselves the same amount. Even in the USA there is only a minimum wage.

AND WHAT IS WRONG IF SOMEONE EARNS MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT? WHO IS THE PRESIDENT THAT PEOPLE CANT EARN ABOVE HIM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE? SINCE WHEN IS THAT A BENCHMARK? What manner of ignorance is this? Does the president earn hazard allowance? Does he earn shift allowance? Is he under the risk of dying in a helicopter crash every 2 weeks? Is he under the risk of having his survey vessel offshore attacked by pirates and militants?

What is the minimum education requirement to becoming the president of Nigeria? School certificate? As a minimum this won't get you employed into DPR or FIRS, etc.

1. The Oil and Gas Industry has its own salary structure. Try to pay a DPR staff 30 thousand per month and you want him to regulate a Total Staff who is paid 1 million plus? Really?

2. The risk majority of these DPR staff take in doing their jobs. The level of expertise, it is not something you just pay paltry 30 thousand minimum wages for.

3. Also, the financial arrangement DPR is operating under is quite different from those of other MDAs. DPR gets to keep a percentage of whatever it generates. Hence it can do much better than many other MDAs.

4. The revenue that the DPR generates is huge. It keeps surpassing it's target every year. Yes the Federal Government gives DPR a target with respect to revenue.

5. For now the Oil and Gas Industry is most important to Nigeria. Those who work and facilitate this will naturally be paid more and appeased by better perks.

As it stands today let no one deceive others that all Civil Servants Contribute the same. They never have and they never will. Various arms of the Civil Service contribute differently to the growth, revenue and development of the country. We all love to live in fantasies and lies we well ourselves.

Zuriel23:
Ok.
I will continue to say it... It's only a lazy Nigerian that will continueally say that Nigeria is broke.
This country is so rich that even our so called elites don't even know what to do with the money they have stolen.

Nigeria can not be broke in the next 200 years.

From what I gather, those dpr people are meant to regulate the activities of those shell, Total, AGIP workers and they generate TRILLIONS of naira for our pippu. All these one na noise making. Abeg, face the real problem in naija!

This person, you sound mature.

PoliticallyInco:
This piece was written out of ignorance and sensationalism.

Global equity when it comes to salary etc. Is a dream. And no time in Nigeria will there be equal pay for all staff of the Government. Not even the oil companies pay themselves the same amount. Even in the USA there is only a minimum wage.

AND WHAT IS WRONG IF SOMEONE EARNS MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT? WHO IS THE PRESIDENT THAT PEOPLE CANT EARN ABOVE HIM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE? SINCE WHEN IS THAT A BENCHMARK? What manner of ignorance is this? Does the president earn hazard allowance? Does he earn shift allowance? Is he under the risk of dying in a helicopter crash every 2 weeks? Is he under the risk of having his survey vessel offshore attacked by pirates and militants?

What is the minimum education requirement to becoming the president of Nigeria? School certificate? As a minimum this won't get you employed into DPR or FIRS, etc.

1. The Oil and Gas Industry has its own salary structure. Try to pay a DPR staff 30 thousand per month and you want him to regulate a Total Staff who is paid 1 million plus? Really?

2. The risk majority of these DPR staff take in doing their jobs. The level of expertise, it is not something you just pay paltry 30 thousand minimum wages for.

3. Also, the financial arrangement DPR is operating under is quite different from those of other MDAs. DPR gets to keep a percentage of whatever it generates. Hence it can do much better than many other MDAs.

4. The revenue that the DPR generates is huge. It keeps surpassing it's target every year. Yes the Federal Government gives DPR a target with respect to revenue.

5. For now the Oil and Gas Industry is most important to Nigeria. Those who work and facilitate this will naturally be paid more and appeased by better perks.

As it stands today let no one deceive others that all Civil Servants Contribute the same. They never have and they never will. Various arms of the Civil Service contribute differently to the growth, revenue and development of the country. We all love to live in fantasies and lies we well ourselves.

Those people dey generate TRILLIONS of naira for naija. Guy, if I have an opportunityto work there, I will work with integrity and get paid accordingly. Dis wan na distraction from the real problem. They can't distract or divert my attention.

GidiWoodsMan:
The organisation is top heavy, they should not have so many people at the top earning that high, because at the end of the day a lot of their core functions are still outsourced to private contractors as a means of political patronage. Also its ethnic profile is skewed in favour of a particular section of the country.

it was not leaked. its govt transparency policy: open treasury. see https://opentreasury.gov.ng/
its the only way to catch thiefs

AMvanquish:
The HR Dept in DPR need to find the snitch that leaked this info and have the person dealt with. In Govt circles, this is standard knowledge. DPR have always been well renumerated due to their O & G status.

you work for nnpc or dpr. how can many people be jobless and they still pay others millions in salary every month
its senseless.

PoliticallyInco:
This piece was written out of ignorance and sensationalism.

Global equity when it comes to salary etc. Is a dream. And no time in Nigeria will there be equal pay for all staff of the Government. Not even the oil companies pay themselves the same amount. Even in the USA there is only a minimum wage.

AND WHAT IS WRONG IF SOMEONE EARNS MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT? WHO IS THE PRESIDENT THAT PEOPLE CANT EARN ABOVE HIM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE? SINCE WHEN IS THAT A BENCHMARK? What manner of ignorance is this? Does the president earn hazard allowance? Does he earn shift allowance? Is he under the risk of dying in a helicopter crash every 2 weeks? Is he under the risk of having his survey vessel offshore attacked by pirates and militants?

What is the minimum education requirement to becoming the president of Nigeria? School certificate? As a minimum this won't get you employed into DPR or FIRS, etc.

1. The Oil and Gas Industry has its own salary structure. Try to pay a DPR staff 30 thousand per month and you want him to regulate a Total Staff who is paid 1 million plus? Really?

2. The risk majority of these DPR staff take in doing their jobs. The level of expertise, it is not something you just pay paltry 30 thousand minimum wages for.

3. Also, the financial arrangement DPR is operating under is quite different from those of other MDAs. DPR gets to keep a percentage of whatever it generates. Hence it can do much better than many other MDAs.

4. The revenue that the DPR generates is huge. It keeps surpassing it's target every year. Yes the Federal Government gives DPR a target with respect to revenue.

5. For now the Oil and Gas Industry is most important to Nigeria. Those who work and facilitate this will naturally be paid more and appeased by better perks.

As it stands today let no one deceive others that all Civil Servants Contribute the same. They never have and they never will. Various arms of the Civil Service contribute differently to the growth, revenue and development of the country. We all love to live in fantasies and lies we well ourselves.

INSTANTCASH345:
You are right. I checked his profile and found out that he is from the North.

ALL his threads are based on northern topics and stories.

He must be the son to that Dasuki guy or related. Don't you see why he is against my post?

He is enjoying himself... Let them enjoy while it lasts.

Brody why the cynicism? Im not Northern. If anything Im telling u that no matter how stubborn the guys at the top get, they cant change the goose that lays the golden egg...

Naija is a collective agreement. Everyone in it has to be respected for it to move forward and thrive.

Dasuks:
Brody why the cynicism? Im not Northern. If anything Im telling u that no matter how stubborn the guys at the top get, they cant change the goose that lays the golden egg...

Naija is a collective agreement. Everyone in it has to be respected for it to move forward and thrive.

Okay bro.

How ur side?

frog12:
it was not leaked. its govt transparency policy: open treasury. see https://opentreasury.gov.ng/
its the only way to catch thiefs

Thanks for the open treasury reference but I still insist It was leaked. Open treasury does not specify cadres of staff that are paid, not to mention even calling out a staff name that was paid. Or if you have the link , please send it because I cant find staff names in the above link. Besides all I see are Govt sector based Financial et al.

29 top officials received between ₦50 million and ₦71.7 million as upfront salary payment. Another 30 received between ₦30 million and ₦49.9 million. 51 staff members received between ₦20 million and ₦29.9 million. 119 others received between ₦10 million and ₦19.9 million. The remaining 375 staff members received between ₦5 million and ₦9.9 million.

Weldon Buhari

That is ecceses of payment of PMS by masses which they refused to reversed.

Price of PMS suppose to be around #80 but still fixed at #125 and we are happy.

Thieves in Govt. Agencies are worrisome.

Go to "Daily payment", and download by year/ and month, you will see staff names there. hehehehehe
See as government staffs dey get millions... they are practically millionaires!!!
while millions of youths are jobless!

I think another government does this, they publish names of staff and their remunerations in the newspapers everytime.

AMvanquish:
Thanks for the open treasury reference but I still insist It was leaked. Open treasury does not specify cadres of staff that are paid, not to mention even calling out a staff name that was paid. Or if you have the link , please send it because I cant find staff names in the above link. Besides all I see are Govt sector based Financial et al.

this was most likely before buhari. oil money don dry.

slivertongue:
29 top officials received between ₦50 million and ₦71.7 million as upfront salary payment. Another 30 received between ₦30 million and ₦49.9 million. 51 staff members received between ₦20 million and ₦29.9 million. 119 others received between ₦10 million and ₦19.9 million. The remaining 375 staff members received between ₦5 million and ₦9.9 million.

Weldon Buhari

frog12:
this was most likely before buhari. oil money don dry.

"Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) paid over 8 billion as salary upfront in January 2020. This is according to the daily payment data published on the open treasury portal.
The review of salary payments between January and April 2020 showed two descriptions. The first description is January 2020 DPR Staff Salary. This has only five beneficiaries and sums to ₦29.6 million. The second description, which is 2020 DPR Staff Upfront Payment, had 605 beneficiaries and summed to ₦8 billion."

i meant it has been ongoing for a long time. we've heard the rumours of nnpc staffs receiving exhorbitant pays. this confirms it.

slivertongue:
"Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) paid over 8 billion as salary upfront in January 2020. This is according to the daily payment data published on the open treasury portal.
The review of salary payments between January and April 2020 showed two descriptions. The first description is January 2020 DPR Staff Salary. This has only five beneficiaries and sums to ₦29.6 million. The second description, which is 2020 DPR Staff Upfront Payment, had 605 beneficiaries and summed to ₦8 billion."

frog12:
i meant it has been ongoing for a long time. we've had the rumours of nnpc staffs receiving exhorbitant pays. this confirms it.

but u agree the report is on what during this administration

Will u shout up, this remuneration structure, was it formulated now.....

Can u be constructive for once?

gurunlocker:
The kind corruption wey dey go on under this administration, devil self go fear...

i know understand what the question says? the govt has open treasury so everyone sees how the govt spends money. perhaps, its meant for us to go and bash the heads of these government millionaires.

slivertongue:
but u agree the report is on what during this administration

winnah:
Will u shout up, this remuneration structure, was it formulated now.....

Can u be constructive for once?

You are telling me to shut up? Lol

That's funny you know? Things we do behind a cheap phone and free internet, living a low frustrated life

olaNL:
Hmm. Though the money seems quite large, but there are two ways to look at it. You might want to say that the salaries of the DPR staff is on the high side for civil/public servant and the same goes for other high paying public institutions like NNPC, FIRS etc. But you also have to look at the practices of the industry under which the institution operates. The oil industry is known to have high salary benefits to its employees all over the world. So if DPR and similar government agencies decides to pay it's staff what non oil related industry are paying, it will not get required technical manpower to perform it's operations most especially in the top management level and it will generally have a high employee turnover as its staff will port to private oil companies that pays will at any given opputunity.
.

We are our own enemies in the country...

DPR staff deserves the pay they get currently, but Nigeria's staff in other areas of the economy also deserve something similar. I mean, why do the staff in Nigerian hospitals get a hazard allowance of only 5k per month...? and even now that some states paid 15 -25k recently, they only did it for about a month or two.

And we all know that the country is not at a lack of resources to pay these salaries.... given the spate of humongous lootings we're all witnessing especially in this period.

Moreoever, despite the jumbo pay, many of these guys still do dirty deals here and there.... else, why do filling stations still shortsell fuel to people while they look the other way?

It's better to harmonize the pay across he various sectors...let people go for them because they have the passion and are competent, not because of greed.... It will help everyone do their jobs better

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