The Federal Government has said it is facing enormous
challenges and revenue deficit amid a growing population.
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu,
lamented that the Federal Government was struggling to pay salaries because
there is no money.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Bagudu urged non-governmental
organisations to help the government to cover the spaces it could not.
He lamented that Nigeria’s population is fast increasing,
adding that unemployment is surging amid high inflation rate.
According to the minister: “Government faces enormous
challenges especially now; the government is facing a revenue deficit. There is
no money anywhere in the country; the government is just managing to pay
salaries.
“The growth rate is very slow and the population growth is
fast pacing and increasing. Unemployment is surging in the midst of high
inflation.”
This is coming amid reports that Tinubu approved the sum of
N35,000 as wage award to all federal civil servants.
The new pay will be effective from 1 September 2023 as
contained in a memo from the Presidency and signed by the Chairman, Chief
Executive Officer, CEO of National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo
U. O. Nta.
The circular was addressed to the Chief of Staff to the
President, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Ministers and Ministers of
State, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of the Civil Service
of the Federation, Chairmen, Federal Commissions, Federal Permanent
Secretaries, Clerk of the National Assembly, Secretary, National Judicial
Council, Secretary, Federal Judicial Service Commission, Directors-General and
Chief Executives of Parastatals, Agencies and Governments-Owned Companies
Auditor-General for the Federation, Accountant-General of the Federation,
Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, and dated 19 October 2023.
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Struggling to pay salaries indeed...When we have members of NA having delivered to them brand new Toyota SUVs worth N130m to N160m each and Nigeria's first Son flying presidential jet on Nigeria's taxpayers money to go watch a golf tournament in Kano???...You guys really take us for fools for real sha!!
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