{"id":70301,"date":"2025-07-11T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70301"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:17:58","slug":"fg-blames-bank-glitch-for-june-salary-delay-assures-swift-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/11\/fg-blames-bank-glitch-for-june-salary-delay-assures-swift-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Blames Bank Glitch for June Salary Delay, Assures Swift Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), has attributed the delay in June salary payments for some federal civil servants to a technical glitch affecting accounts domiciled with Zenith Bank Plc.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Friday, Bawa Mokwa, Director of Press and Public Relations at the OAGF, explained that the issue disrupted salary payments across various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon investigation, it was discovered that a network issue in the bank caused the failure,\u201d Mokwa stated. \u201cWe understand the frustration this has caused and deeply regret the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OAGF assured affected workers that it is working closely with service providers and stakeholders to reprocess all failed transactions without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcrete steps have already been taken to isolate the problem, and arrangements are underway to ensure swift payment,\u201d Mokwa added, urging civil servants to remain calm.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that after resolving the June salary issue, the government would continue disbursing the outstanding four months&#8217; N35,000 wage award arrears to eligible workers.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming its commitment to transparency and efficiency, the OAGF pledged ongoing engagement with stakeholders to improve payroll operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe welfare of Federal Government employees remains our top priority,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), has attributed the delay in June salary payments for some federal civil servants to a technical glitch affecting accounts domiciled with Zenith Bank Plc. In a statement released Friday, Bawa Mokwa, Director of Press and Public Relations at the OAGF, explained that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70301","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70303,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70301\/revisions\/70303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}