{"id":69810,"date":"2025-07-07T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69810"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:13:04","slug":"fct-water-board-casual-workers-beg-wike-for-jobs-six-month-unpaid-stipends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/07\/fct-water-board-casual-workers-beg-wike-for-jobs-six-month-unpaid-stipends\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Water Board Casual Workers Beg Wike for Jobs, Six-Month Unpaid Stipends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casual workers with the FCT Water Board have appealed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to absorb them into the government payroll and order the payment of their six-month unpaid stipends.<\/p>\n<p>Abuja City Journal gathered that the affected workers; some of whom hold HND qualifications earn between N20,000 and N25,000 monthly.<\/p>\n<p>They are mostly deployed to area offices for bill distribution and repair works but have not been paid since December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>There are two categories of casual staff at the board: those paid directly by the FCTA, who reportedly receive their stipends regularly, and those paid by the Water Board, who are now owed.<\/p>\n<p>A senior board official, who preferred anonymity, blamed the delay on the lack of overhead releases from the FCTA, adding that payments are typically sourced from such funds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated appeals, the affected workers said their requests for regularisation have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy two children are out of school, and we\u2019ve not been paid since December. Life is unbearable,\u201d said Chioma, an HND holder.<\/p>\n<p>Another worker, Mrs. Yahaya Hanafi, echoed the hardship, pleading with the minister to urgently intervene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Casual workers with the FCT Water Board have appealed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to absorb them into the government payroll and order the payment of their six-month unpaid stipends. Abuja City Journal gathered that the affected workers; some of whom hold HND qualifications earn between N20,000 and N25,000 monthly. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69810","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69848,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69810\/revisions\/69848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}