By Ahmed Abba
Damaturu, May 25, 2021 The Yobe government on Tuesday said it paid N7.5 billion as retirement benefits and gratuities to 600 beneficiaries from June 2019 to February 2021.
The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Musa Mustapha, said this at the ongoing ministerial briefing organised by Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Damaturu.
Mustapha, represented by Muhammed Gana, the Director, Internal Audit, said
“Retirement benefits and death gratuity in respect of about 600 beneficiaries amounting to about N7.5 billion was paid between the period of June 1, 2019 to Feb 31, 2021.”
He added that the state government had approved biometrics verification exercise for all new employees before enrollment into state payroll to further strengthen the Public Finance Management in the state.
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In a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting on the state of the nation held on May 21, the organisation, which comprises the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, advised the federal government to immediately implement the report of the two committees which had proffered far-reaching solutions to the current challenges in Nigeria.