{"id":35408,"date":"2024-06-20T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35408"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:04:51","slug":"gov-mbah-offsets-education-colleges-salary-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/20\/gov-mbah-offsets-education-colleges-salary-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Mbah Offsets Education College\u2019s Salary Arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has approved the payment of eight-month salary arrears valued at over N467million, which the past administration owed the academic, non-academic, and casual staff of the Enugu State College of Education, Technical (ESCET), Enugu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The approval\u2019s breakdown is as follows: the eight-month salary arrears of 299 academic and non-academic staff of ESCET, valued at N384 million; the salary arrears of part-time lecturers, valued at N69.2m; and the salary arrears of casual staff, valued at N13.8 million. The total amounted to N467,061,600.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">According to the government, this aligns with Governor Mbah\u2019s promise to transform the state\u2019s education sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Mbah administration earmarked N158.78 billion, representing 33 percent of the state\u2019s 2024 budget, for the education sector, Recording the highest per capita and percentage of total budget sum in the country and higher than UNESCO\u2019s recommended benchmark of 15 percent-20 percent of the total annual budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has approved the payment of eight-month salary arrears valued at over N467million, which the past administration owed the academic, non-academic, and casual staff of the Enugu State College of Education, Technical (ESCET), Enugu. The approval\u2019s breakdown is as follows: the eight-month salary arrears of 299 academic and non-academic staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":35409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[1041],"class_list":["post-35408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-escet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35437,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408\/revisions\/35437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}