There are strong indications that workers in 18 states may start an indefinite strike on Monday over unpaid salaries.

The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday in Abuja, said that the congress had sent its task force team to various geo-political zones of the country.

According to him, the strike has started in Plateau State, adding that a similar exercise will begin in Cross River State and others on Monday.

The National Administrative Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress had, on March 19, 2015, set up a task force to pursue payment of salary arrears owed workers by some state governments.

The report of the task force, which was exclusively obtained by our correspondent, showed that 19 states are owing salaries and pensions.

Ozo-Eson told our correspondent that the NLC had sent its task forces to the affected states and directed those who were being owed to begin strike.

He said, “The various Task Forces are working. Plateau is on strike, Cross Rivers is going on Monday; the various task forces are working.

“A team is leaving for Benue to commence action; they are now free to commence action and we are supporting them.”

The report of the Task Force of the NLC revealed that while some of the states had paid salaries of workers up to date, they were owing arrears of pensions running into months.

The states owing salaries or pensions are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, and Kogi.

Others are Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara states.

However, a look at the report reveals that Adamawa, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Edo, the FCT, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto and Taraba are not indebted to their workers.

The report stated that Abia State had not paid salaries of workers of the State Teaching Hospital for nine months.

The state is also said to be owing workers of the Hospital Management Board eight months’ salary; Abia State Universal Basic Education Board, six months; Abia State Polytechnic, five months; local government workers, four months; and teachers, three months’ salary arrears.

It was stated that while Enugu State had paid salaries of civil servants up to date, parastatals were owed 12 months’ salaries and pension and gratuity remain unpaid since 2010.

Others states owing are Osun State with six months’ salary and pension arrears; Plateau with six months salaries and seven months pension; Benue with five months salaries and four months pension arrears; Kogi with four months of pension and salary arrears; and Oyo which owes three months salaries and between five and 11 months of pension arrears.

Also among the states which are likely to owe salaries and pension of workers into the incoming administration on May 29 are Ekiti with three months of unpaid salaries.

Jigawa is owing judiciary workers a month salary arrears in 2015.

Ondo owes one month salary and pension, while Ogun is owing one month salary and 52 months of unremitted pension deductions to the Pension Fund Administration.

Although Zamfara State has paid workers’ salaries up to date, the salaries of workers who were recruited in 2014 have not been paid.

The NLC Task Force also stated that Rivers State owes one month of workers’ salaries and three months of pension while Kano has yet to pay newly employed teachers for three months.

However, the Task Force report was silent on the status of Yobe and Ebonyi on the ground that there was no information on them.

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Baba Kabiru has completely run out of ideas.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Enugu state is up to date with payments, that's nice to hear.

ECOTERRORS:
Most of the APC states are owing salaries maybe its because they used it to fund buhari campaign

Schematics:
In the long run only two states, Lagos and Anambra can comfortably pay salaries with or without federal allocations.

asha80:
Abia state smh ...imo state na Wao...bailout lol...Remarkable which way?

Remarkable:


na comment you dey make or nah quention you fire me so?

BuddahMonk:


Nwanne there is one thing I discovered about Omanbala, friendly opposition party but the governor is very very careful.

The opposition is waiting for him to f up so that they will take the advantage but they are not all over media pulling him down to show they want his office.

The governor himself knows the opposition in the state have everything in their arsenal, intellectuals and moneybags so he won't like to f up lest he lose his state.

PDP with Obi the father of modern Anambra and Ngige in APC backed by Federal power brokers are lurking at the corners for the plumb job, Obiano need to sit up walahi because these guys take no prisoners ooo

At the end of the whole exercise Omanbalas are winning.
APGA winning Anambra is no longer an easy job, let your performance do the job.

asha80:
Na question I dey ask you..shebi ta Orji is the best thing after sliced bread in abia according to you no be so?

BuddahMonk:
The two Niger Delta states in SE are just doing poorly, what could be the problem, imagine Abia State with 13% derivation, NDDC, Federal allocation and a city like Abaaaaaaaaaaaaa , a city like Aba.

Theodore Orji you will die fussing, your family that enjoy ill-gotten wealth with you is cursed

Abagworo:


Enugu owing 12months isnt Niger Delta. Jonathan killed Nigeria since 2014.

BuddahMonk:


Enugwu is owing only parastatals,

Does Enugwu receive more allocation than Abia.

Does Enugwu have bigger economy than Abia.

Is Enugwu well situated than Abia.

Are both not PDP states.

Are both not in SE.

Does Abia have bigger workforce than Enugwu.

Did Abia build more projects than Enugwu.

Are both States not Jonathan's strongholds.



Why should Abia state perform poorly despite having all the economic advantage over Enugwu and your here talking about Jonathan.

Remarkable:


Yes, Abia state has a higher workforce than Enugu, and three-quarters of them are from other states; not to mention that Enugu state in the mid '90s sacked non-indigenes from Enugu state and Abia state absorbed them into its fold.

Finally, yes, Abia state has embarked on more projects than Enugu, especially in the medical department.

I have given you information that is available out there for you and me to access; you can either confirm all this by verifying all I've said, or just continue swearing for T.A. Orji while God keeps blessing him, from Governor to Senator.

(P.S. I am not saying it is right to owe workers for one day. But given the challenges state governments face, not to mention its > minimum wage it pays, picking out Abia to vilify is just getting old and boring).

BuddahMonk:


Enugwu is owing only parastatals,

Does Enugwu receive more allocation than Abia.

Does Enugwu have bigger economy than Abia.

Is Enugwu well situated than Abia.

Are both not PDP states.

Are both not in SE.

Does Abia have bigger workforce than Enugwu.

Did Abia build more projects than Enugwu.

Are both States not Jonathan's strongholds.



Why should Abia state perform poorly despite having all the economic advantage over Enugwu and your here talking about Jonathan.

asha80:
rubbish yarns bringing up the stupid indigine and non indigene talk to hide the cluelessness on one man..yeah ala ala oma hospital represents the condition of the whom hospitals in abia..mention the gaddem projects abia gov has done more than Enugu that you say here ..defending what is arguably the worst administration in nigeria