- Says January, February payment fully settled
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) says no shortfalls were recorded in salaries paid to Federal workers in January and February 2025.
According to the OAGF, the salaries that workers received in January and February 2025 were their normal salaries after the various arrears that were paid from October to December 2024 were exhausted.
A statement by the OAGF in Abuja said clarifications on the purported shortfall in January and February 2025 salaries became necessary as to ease any anxiety in the minds of workers.
The statement; “Various salary arrears were paid in the last quarter of 2024, namely: minimum wage arrears, 25%/35% increase in salary arrears and wage award arrears.
“All these arrears were paid from the month of October 2024 to December 2024. This made salaries to increase abnormally over the last quarter of 2024”.
It further explained that; “Payment of normal salaries after exhausting the various arrears began in January 2025, which made some workers think that they were shortchanged, when in actual sense, it was their real salaries. A glance at current salary table will substantiate this further”.
Importantly too, the OAGF stated that baring any other salary arrears in the future, what was paid in January and February 2025 shall continue to be the salaries, until such a time that the Federal Government reviews the salaries.
The statement signed by Bawa Mokwa, Director of Press and Public Relations, OAGF, revealed that there were cases of overpayments in the month of December 2024 due to system error, adding that the error has been corrected and deductions in respect of the overpayments from the salaries of affected workers was on-going and shall continue until such overpayments were fully recovered.
On promotion arrears payment, the Statement said the exercise is handled by a Standing Committee on Promotion and Salary Arrears in the Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) which compiles and vets all salary and promotion arrears from various Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) before such is channeled in batches to Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) for settle payment.
The OAGF said IPPIS has fully paid batches 1 to 6 and is awaiting more batches from the Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) for payment.
It further expressed determination to efficiently manage the IPPIS in view of its importance to workers, urging those with genuine complaints about their salaries to follow the formal processes to get such resolved as quickly as possible.
