FG Orders Immediate Payment Of Workers’ February Salary

In order to enable workers wishing to travel to vote in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election to do so, the Federal Government has directed the immediate payment of February salaries.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the announcement while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting.

The minister said the payment of salaries to federal workers already commenced on Tuesday, which is “to ease the burden off civil servants planning to travel for the elections”.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), postponed the presidential and national assembly election from February 16 to February 23.

Mohammed further said the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), with a membership of about 50,000, “(which) controls 80 per cent of the petroleum sector distribution has agreed to cushion the effect of the postponement by reducing the price of pump price of petrol from N145 to 140 from February 21 to 25th”.

According to him, the minister said the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) also offered to provide discount to travellers using their motor parks.

“All these (are) aimed at encouraging voters who might have been disenfranchised by the postponement,” he said.

He also said two airlines, Aero contractors and Arik Air, are offering discounted fares to passengers.

He said while Aero is offering a 50 per cent discount to all travellers who present their Permanent Voters Card (PVC), at point of purchase, Arik has slashed the price of their tickets to N16000 to all destinations across the country from February 18 to 11 March 11, 2019.