DPR paid ₦8 billion salary upfront in January
May 27, 2020 Paul Adeyeye Premium Times
Data analysis by Dataphyte has shown the 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.

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.

The treasury database also indicated that five DPR staff received double payment in the same period. The first payment was with the description January 2020 Salary while the second payment had the description – 2020 DPR Staff Upfront Payment. An example of a recipient of the double payment is Abubakar Attahiru Saleh who received a sum of ₦22,755,745.91 twice the same day. While he received ₦6,318,167.93 as January Salary, he also received a second payment of ₦16,437,577.98 as Salary Upfront.

610 DPR staff earn more than the President

In addition, the data revealed that over 610 DPR personnel may earn more than the Nigerian President. According to RMAFC, President Buhari receives a total salary package of ₦1.17 million monthly. This sum is inclusive of a basic monthly salary of ₦292,892, a hardship allowance of ₦146,446 monthly, and a consistency allowance of ₦732,230 per month. Similarly, Vice President Osinbajo receives a total of ₦1.01 million monthly take-home pay. From basic arithmetic, the take-home pay of the Nigerian President and the Vice President comes to ₦14 million and ₦12 million, respectively.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
Further analysis of the open treasury data revealed that staff annual salary at the DPR ranged from ₦5,028,450.22 to ₦71,723,727.24. By implication, the least paid person in DPR received over ₦419,000 monthly. While the designation of the lower ranks in the salary structure is unknown, the Operations Controller received an excess of ₦70 million annually. Also, the Director of Petroleum Resources; the Head, Safety, Health and Environment; and the Deputy Director, Basinal Assessment and Lease Administration received ₦69,378,164.01; ₦64,359,638.72; and ₦63,459,241.62, respectively.

Wage Justice and Revenue Management

This lopsided salary structure raises questions on justice and revenue management. As known, the implementation of a minimum worker’s payment of ₦30,000 monthly has been a subject of an unending debate in Nigeria. Thus, such an enormous financial commitment to a group of workers generates questions on fairness and equity. Indications that this lopsided salary payment structure is a common practice in many MDAs including the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) also stimulates concerns.

More specifically, the Treasury Data raises questions on the public service rule on upfront salary payment and the discrepancies in salary roster of DPR and other MDAs. Another question is as to whether these discrepancies violate the salary structure by the National Salary, Incomes and Wages Commission.


The need to harmonize worker’s earnings at this point remains pressing. In addition to the need for justice and equity in worker’s payment, Nigeria’s revenue shortage requires prudent economic management measures. The recent effort of the Federal Government to harmonize workers earning across MDAs is commendable. However, there is a more urgent need to level up the discrepant wage structure across

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610 DPR staff earned more than the President

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Lopsided distribution of wealth in a country bedeviled by extreme poverty and mass unemployment.

This country is so rich but the politicians makes it seems poor on our eyes .

This country sef ...

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

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.

And the writer of this piece does not understand what upfront payment is. It's an accumulation of benefits that is given once a year and at the beginning of the year and it varies across the seniority level. So it doesn't mean that all the employee got similar upfront some might have gotten more while other got less than what was stated in the article above.

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.

where is EFCC?

And the price of oil is close to production price?

Minimum wage is 30k

Time to start sacking

How can you pay 8 months salary to abokies /Arewa children in the NNPC when the price /barrel is less than its cost of production?

No wonder during this Salah they started displaying their sudden wealth & riches on social media.

I only pity the N/Delta inhabitants, by the time the northerners will be done with you guys, it's then you will all wake up from day dreaming.

Now, they have used the N/Delta resources to establish oil wells in the north in event the oil in N/Delta finally goes into extinction.

One Nigeria is really a crime against humanity.


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business that should be ran by private sector

And who says Nigeria is broke? These guys are stinkly rich. This is just the official salary, what about the underground deals and businesses. God position me at the right place at the right time...

The question here: what are they going to do about it?

Wow! Great place to work!

APC party if criminals


Otherwise I see no reason y this will happen . Earned 50milliion for doing what ?

Chaiiii, we really need an overhauling in Nigeria. I have always told people anywhere and any day that Nigeria is rich but lack visionary leaders and because you will know another group will launch out like the ' Arewa boys'. We need to wake up. If not for ourselves but at least the the unborn generation. We can't be running from one country to another when we have abundance. I enjoin we are irrespective of tribe,religion n ethnicity to add values in every ramifications. We can stop corruption in our little corner. Many of the countries will run to are not that 'better' than us just that we don't want change but the very day will decide it,it will come. Shalom

I’m not surprised at all. DPR has always been like that. They pay their staff very huge salaries that are always approved by the National Assembly. The only solution is for the executive to immediately harmonize the salary structure of all federal workers.

Premium Times and Sahara Reporters, please keep exposing these idiots.

It only takes someone who benefits from this rotten system not to be worried that nothing works in this country

So all the anti corruption noise by buhari

Done and dusted
From nddc to every organisation, it has been back to back massive fraud news everyday

Later they will pose on twitter with expensive suvs with no job claiming arewa

This Is the one (oil) Nigeria Gowon fought for
We have seen the super power we became decades later

Guys, this salary is nothing compared to what this people make monthly thru illegal collection from filling station. They tore round stations monthly and collect minimum of 20k from each station to allow them adjust their pumps. So you can calculate that.

tenry:
Guys, this salary is nothing compared to what this people make monthly thru illegal collection from filling station. They tore round stations monthly and collect minimum of 20k from each station to allow them adjust their pumps. So you can calculate that.

I know a staff there who bought a 30M naira house in Lekki as far back as 2010
It's a free world there

This is not strange and not a new thing. Government parastatals in the oil and gas sector earn way way above their counterparts in MDAs.

They and NAPIMS/NNPC are the big boys of public service who enjoy fat pay check and allowances at month end.

However, they deserve to be well paid in order to match what their counterparts in the O&G companies they regulate and work with earn so as to prevent compromise on the job and unethical practices e.g connivance with operators to defraud government.

In short, the huge pay package is justified.

money dey now

No wonder!

These people are something else. They earn more than Mr. Prexy. Nawa o.