{"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\/2016\/03\/8-year-old-teachers-recieving-salaries-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"‘8-year-old teachers’ receiving salaries in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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
The scam, which involves drawing the salaries of non-existent civil servants, is widespread, a BBC correspondent in Nigeria says.<\/p>\n
But the government has recently been cracking down, removing thousands of “ghost workers” from its payroll.<\/p>\n
Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy.<\/p>\n
It is the continent’s top oil producer, but its economy is currently under huge strain due to the recent collapse in oil prices.<\/p>\n
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
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
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n