See what fg plans to do with workers salary

Minister of finance

Nigeria’s finance minister, Kemi
Adeosun, has revealed that federal
government spends N165 Billion monthly
to pay monthly salaries and allowances of
workers

 President Muhammdu Buhari has
announced compulsory automation of
payment of workers’ salaries and
allowances in order to reduce cost of
governance.
The minister of finance, Kemi
Adeosun today disclosed that the federal
government spends N165 Billion to
pay monthly salaries and allowances of
workers across the country.
In order to reduce the huge wage bill,
President Muhammdu Buhari has directed
the compulsory automation of payment of
workers’ salaries and allowances as a
means of reducing the cost of governance,
The Nation reports.
Adeosun speaking when serving chiefs
under the federal ministry of interior
came to the ministry of finance to plug
into the payment automation exercise,
said President Buhari wants everybody to
be on the automated payment system
which will lead to improvement in
financial control and transparency.