{"id":199430,"date":"2016-03-16T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=199430"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:32:02","slug":"8-year-old-teachers-recieving-salaries-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=199430","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;8-year-old teachers&#8217; receiving salaries in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Children as young as eight are being paid teaching salaries by the state as part of identity fraud in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Bauchi, officials have found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scam, which involves drawing the salaries of non-existent civil servants, is widespread, a BBC correspondent in Nigeria says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the government has recently been cracking down, removing thousands of &#8220;ghost workers&#8221; from its payroll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the continent&#8217;s top oil producer, but its economy is currently under huge strain due to the recent collapse in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state has been able to save millions of dollars as a result of an ongoing verification of its workforce, the auditor general for Bauchi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abubakar Gabi said that thousands of workers and pensioners did not appear for an exercise aimed at rooting out ghost workers and claimants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children as young as eight are being paid teaching salaries by the state as part of identity fraud in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Bauchi, officials have found. The scam, which involves drawing the salaries of non-existent civil servants, is widespread, a BBC correspondent in Nigeria says. But the government has recently been cracking down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}