NUJ appeals to Cross River govt to pay gratuities to retired civil servants
The journalists’ union says retired civil servants have not received their gratuities for about seven years.
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Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River Council, has appealed to Governor Ben Ayade to settle the seven-year backlog of gratuities owed retired public servants in the State.
The Union stated this on Friday in Calabar in a communique signed by the Chairman, Victor Udu and Secretary, Oka Ibor after its monthly state Congress.
According to the union, the non-payment of gratuities to retirees for several years had led to the untimely death of many of them due to hardship.
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The federal government has announced plans to purge the civil service of incompetent hands.
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, said there’s now a strict system to employ only qualified persons.
Yemi-Esan spoke at the April edition of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR’s) lunch-time reform seminar on Thursday in Abuja.
NAN reports that the HoCS was represented by Emmanuel Meribole, the Permanent Secretary, Service Policies and Strategies Office.
Yemi-Esan stated that the civil service was no longer a welfare institution where people were recruited to check unemployment.
She said the new reform programme, Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) 2017-2020, was derived from the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).
Views: Visits 9 By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin-City Prices of fishes have skyrocketed in Edo state as sellers have for the past three days refused to sell in protest of the activities of cold room owners and operators who they accused of arbitrary increase in the prices of fish, a more major protein source. They called on the state government to look into an alarming situation where every seller or provider of particular service to the people form unions to regulate prices of their commodities which they lamented that most times are to the detriment of the people. Fish sellers under the auspices of Traders’ Welfare Union of Nigeria drawn from several markets in Benin City who staged a peaceful protest in major streets stormed the secretariat of the Edo State Council secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ where they said a carton of fish which they used to buy N7,000 has within few years skyrocketed to N37,000, stressing that this has made fish
Secondus said the 2023 general elections may not hold due the current spate of insecurity in Nigeria.
He spoke at the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, emergency meeting in Abuja.
The PDP National Chairman lamented that the Federal Government has failed to resolve the country’s insecurity challenges.
He said: “Our country today is grounded by insecurity and there has been no matching response from the government despite the demands of the 1999 operating constitution in section 14 subsection (2b) that “the welfare and security of the citizens shall be the primary purpose of government.
“Terrorists in the North before were confined to the North East region but today 50 villages have been reportedly taken by them in the North Central state of Niger.
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