The federal government of Nigeria has announced that
it will start paying workers’ salaries on the 25th of
every month.

This will begin with the current month of April, the
Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed
Idris, said.
“There is a standing instruction of Mr President to pay
salary on or before 24 or 25 of every month and we will
try as much as possible to comply and to abide by that.
“We are taking a step further to make a provision
whereby we can accommodate salary payments even
before FAAC.
“This is going to be given a test I believe by this month.

 “We will go to seek necessary approval of our political
masters to make sure that at least salary and other
statutory payments are made even before FAAC.
“Because we can project how much they are and
therefore we can prepare and hit the ground running to
make them realisable and actualised.
“Even when we delay FAAC, we can still pay salary,” he
said.
Mr. Idris dispelled the widely held belief that the
Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy was responsible
for the delay in the payment of salaries and attributed
the situation to the crash in global oil prices, which
affected the inflow of income to the country.
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