40 Civil Servants Receive Huge Amount of Money for Winning Presidential Award, Head of Service Reacts
- Some workers who won the presidential award in June 2022 received cash rewards for their commitment to service
- The civil servants numbering 40 were rewarded and presented with cheques of N500,000 by the Head of Service, Folasade Yemi-Esan and the chairman of the AIG Imoukhuede Foundation
- According to the HoS, the cash rewards is in appreciation of the hard work and perseverance exhibited in carrying out their duties to the nation
Forty civil servants have received cheques of N500,000 each for emerging as recipients of the Presidential Public Service Merit Award for June 2022.
PR Nigeria reports that the award recipients were rewarded for their astute service to the nation on Thursday, August 18 by the Head of Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan through the AIG Imoukhuede Foundation.
Source: UGC
Speaking while making a presentation of the cheques to the awardees, Yemi-Esan thanked the AIG Imoukhuede Foundation for putting smiles on civil servants’ faces.
Yemi-Esan said that such an act has obviously motivated the civil servants and spurred them to perform better at their places of work.
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She also urged the awardees who received alerts for their hard work and perseverance in carrying out their duties to use the cash reward they received wisely.
He words:
“Use the money you have just received wisely. Invest in something profitable."
Also speaking, the chairman of the foundation, AIG Imoukhuede promised to make the event an annual ritual.
He said he hope that the annual event would serve as a means of immortalizing his late mother, who was a dedicated civil servant at the time.
FG talks tough, reveals fresh payment plan for ASUU after 186 days-long strike
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will not be paid for the six months they did not work, the Federal Government had said.
The decision of the FG was made public by the minister of education, Adamu Adamu on Thursday, August 18.
According to Adamu, FG will not renege on its 'no work, no pay' policy as a deterrent to other workers who might want to adopt strike action as a means of making their grievances known to the government.
ASUU: 3 weeks after giving ultimatum to education minister, Buhari makes crucial demand
President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier made an appeal to the academic staff union of the universities (ASUU) to call off its long industrial action.
Buhari made the appeal in a statement through his chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari, at a special convocation ceremony and honorary degree on Muhammadu Ndume at the University of Maiduguri.
The president said the industrial action embarked upon by the university lecturers is undermining Nigeria's development in terms of human capital.
Source: Legit.ng
