R-L: Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman condoling Otunba Niyi Adebayo (former Governor of Ekiti State) during a recent condolence visit over the demise of late General Adeyinka Adebayo at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos.
L-R: Daughter of late General Adeyinka Adebayo, Mrs. Nike Makinde (Nee Adebayo); Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman; Son of the deceased, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and his wife, Erelu Adebayo, when the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority paid a condolence visit to the family of late General Adeyinka Adebayo at Ikeja GRA, Lagos.R-L: Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman condoling Otunba Niyi Adebayo (former Governor of Ekiti State) during a recent condolence visit over the demise of late General Adeyinka Adebayo at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos.
At first, it was a rumour. Then, the rumor became stronger. And then, the rumour became political allegation that the federal and state
governments could no longer pay salaries because public funds were deployed by the two major political parties to prosecute the 2015 general elections.
Today, the situation has become a national embarrassment that Nigeria cannot pay its civil servants-from federal government to state governments. While actual figures of the total indebtedness at the federal and state levels is difficult to ascertain, various media reports quoted N110 billion as the total sum due to the unfortunate government employees.