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The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has ordered continuous salary deductions from federal workers to recover "excess payments" made in December 2024, blaming the situation on a system error. 

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) confirmed in a Friday statement, signed by its Director of Press and Public Relations, Bawa Mokwa, that deductions are ongoing and will continue until the overpaid sums are fully recovered.

This move has come as a shock to many civil servants because when the money was paid last December everyone thought it was exmass bonus which is usually what is done during festive periods, what do you think that the situation?

https://saharareporters.com/2025/03/08/tinubu-government-orders-salary-deductions-nigerian-workers-claims-december-was-overpaid

Guys you see the reason why i say this our so called country is a big scam based on some research i made this action has cost so many civic servants dissatisfaction, most of them didn't even no that the addition of salary that was paid to them in December 2024 time were erroneous, now the unexpected deduction has cost alot of thing to so many FG workers we can just imagine a local Government primary school teacher who earned not less than 60k in a month with families and many other to feed how would it sound to he or her with the bad cost of things in the economic this is really been unfair to the worker, this deduction that was made has an emerged loans to most people who are dependent on the salaries, and also the government have said the salaries deduction will stay a little bit until all the overpaid sum are been recovered by the FG, unless a new salary structure is been bought out which the amounts that was been pay in the month of January and February are expected to remain unchanged.
This is one of the reasons why i choose not to be unemployed by the so called FG because there is no amount that can buy my time by them
(Saharareporters.com)

If it was as a result of excess payment then i have no issue with the order. I was surprised when i saw the headline so i have to make my own research to find out that the information is not on any well known reporters website like Vanguard and the rest. How sure is this since its Saharareporters sharing the information with Facebook and YouTube. Dont get me all wrong here, i am just saying that the information has to be solid so that we dont go around spreading the wrong information. But if it is true then its no big deal. He paid them more so he has to balance it all up.

excess payment that came in the form of examass bonus they will have made it clear from the beginning because it's in the tradition of government to give civil servants bonuses during festive season's so why is this year's own different after giving people money in the hopes of bonuses you come back later with the story of excess payment

I don't think anything because he is intentionally doing that, as we know Tinubu or Tunubo a criminal and he thought presidential seat are for entitlement.
I am not surprised because he paid heavily to be in that position so he must try everything possible to make sure he recovers what he has spent so far on his presidential campaign.

now you dey talk this kind talk for you mouth? I no believe say person like you go talk this kind talk no wahala now because say you no be civil servant shall that why you are talking like this, and beside how much Tinubu even pay government workers self last year, wey go make an come talk this kind rubbish, Abi shame no dey catch an, that thing wey federal government dey pay civil servant now salary, can that salary run a home, well I no blame an shall now people wey vote an put for there I blame, beside Nigeria don expire, the country is already dying so make I no even waste my time dey talk about Nigeria.

Nigeria citizens should better wake up because this thing called government of Nigeria no get any better plan for their citizens, because Nigeria now business ground wey politician dey use enrich thereselves, see how much wey them dey pay senators for doing nothing, them no dey work anything, now civil servants wey dey work them dey pay them pinut, habi where there conscience dey,

Hmmm, our country people this matter tie wrapper oh, lemme be sincere ehh, wetin this Tinubu regime dey do no dey good at all, the kind shege them dey show people no be small, maybe some people fit dey privileged to dey benefit from getting the right informations from the Internet, we fit get better hedge but make we try call spade spade, try dey consider people dey earn solely from the government cause people are suffering.

 I no dey try dey emotional about this discussion but the peanut wey most of our mama and papa dey earn from this corrupt government no worth to deduct their salaries over cooked up story by government to defraud people, okay why them no go deduct the money from account of government officials wey make the mistake why from the poor masses, make we try dey call spade spade joor.

no de yarn anyhow bros. imagine say you de work for a private sector when de pay you $80 at the end of every month, and then e come pay you $160 because of system error and decide say him go deduct am from the next month salary, you go argue with your boss when you know say normally them de get budget when de allocated for the payment of your salary?

no be every time we go de attack the decision of our leaders. if them make decision when we know say e no enter well, nothing spoil make we put am for their body but when they make decision when no de all that bad, make we de truthful to ourselves accept say them de really in their own little way. the argument on the need for an increase in the salary of civil servant na a totally different one and that one no still warrant the government to spend above their budget. if them no pay workers for a single month, workers go complain even enter street go do protest, now when them don pay them excess, the government has every right to decide what to do about it whether it is to reverse the payment or deduct it from their next month pay.

I understand the point you are trying to say here, but if you look at the op post again, you will see where he said that these civil servants initially thought that it was an exmas bonus that was added to their take home salary, which I believe that you and I will be thinking the same if we were in their shoes, but honestly it would really be a bitter pills for the civil servants to swallow considering how costly the price of things are in our society today.
In my sincere opinion this wouldn't have been a big deal if they hard created awareness about this earlier like in that festive season when the money was paid, so that people would have prepared their mind that the money will be recovered back, and they would have spend more wisely, but they stay mute till now that they have all moved on from it, this particular act will really be a bitter one for our civil servants workers honestly if this piece of news is actually true.

to me haven't gone through the story line to know how much that was actually over paid to teachers that has lead to deduction of salary among federal  workers, but to no avail no amount was mention there, however considering the way politicians are toiling away and mismanaging our public fund including the presidency is too bad, haven't said this, it is said what is good for the goos should be good to the gands, he who comes for equity should come with a clean hand, summarily the oder he gave to federal civil servants, should also be given to other federal parastata where where ghost name of workers and other anomalies are on going

Ah, civil servants, I pity them. They're being penalized for excess payment? These people work Monday to Friday, under the rain and under the sun. Isn't it fair enough to triple their salary? You gave them a bonus during Christmas, and now you're calling it excess payment?

How much do all the senators earn? They have wardrobe allowances self, and other ridiculous allowances. Meanwhile, civil servants, who actually do the work, are being penalized. Even if it is excess payment, which I don't think is excessive, just let it go. You're taking it back in March; does that make any sense? How much are these politicians looting? How much are they taking daily? Excess payment, wow! You see why the young generation doesn't want to do the 9-to-5 government work? What kind of mistreatment is this?

If it's excess payment, let it go. It was the Christmas period, and the price of things was high. It's the government's fault that things were so expensive. This alone is getting me angry. I don't even want to talk about it too much. God will judge many things on the last day. Even the senators are government workers; will they deduct money from them? Obviously not. It's the civil servants, who earn peanuts, that they're deducting from.

I don't agree with this. This shows how low the country rates its workers. When the money was paid in December and they saw that it was a mistake, they should have addressed it and let the workers know that it would be deducted from their next salary. Since it was December salary, they might think its the bonuses they always receive bonuses previously.
Also the law also states that the deduction should be made from the the salaries of the next 3 months after the mistake was discovered. The mistake was discovered in December and according to them, they will continue deducting even after this month. With the cost of living in the country, its simply not fair to do that  to people. Other people cant pay for a mistake the government made.

You're right this move is causing problems because when the money was paid in December the government didn't say anything concerning it to address the situation in a bid to correct the impression that it was not a bonus or Aries as was is the case in others years and allowed people to spend the money and after two months that is when they are coming to deduct monies from the salaries of workers using the excuse of over payment, this is not a sincere government that has the people in mind

My husband is a civil servant, am not sure of this information, and to the best of my knowledge some federal agencies that i know received their December salaries after Christmas and it's just for one month, while the federal institutions were not paid December salaries until January 2025 because they are no longer with the integrated payroll payment information system (IPPIS), and as for Christmas bonus,I don't know when last Federal civil servants received Christmas bonus, most time their December salaries comes after Christmas celebration before January , if the information OP brought says the government paid Christmas bonus,the accountant general and his cabinet knows where the money is and should be brought out, except the double salaries were paid to the director which they have embezzled, and so they should be held responsible for the returns not the individuals, as i speak to you the since January  the institutions have not been paid their full salary, that the federal government has short fall until the budget is being implemented this March that is when they will have their full salaries imagine that, the money should be fished out among them.
Na when I be pikin I no sey federal government dey pay Christmas bonus, almost ten years with my husband no Christmas bonus one day, make this country dey do the right things.

if it's correct that it was a mistake then the staff has to return to the government, there is no big deal here and no one should speak evil against the government.  Because you don't know it will affect the government fiscal budget for the year. So if they have resolved to use deduction policy on the staffs that's even fair enough for them than to collect a whole month salary. This one will not really touch the FG staff.  But next time the government should not make sure human error again. And we hope the deducted funds will be remitted national treasury account. Because this country is full of surprises

Why Dey even make that kind mistake right from beginning, me I never hear am before say government Dey pay salary in excess, me I just Dey reason say dem do that thing intentionally, maybe money Dey wey Dey wan push out, na why dem decide to use that strategy, no Dey surprise say no be all accounts dem go deduct money from their accounts, d once wey dem no commot anything for their account, na their own accounts be that.

Anything wey dis government do Dey always Dey suspicious to be, because they fit make use of any strategy to steal money, so even if something’s wey happen na real, me go Dey feel say Dey just wan scam us.

No govt dey above errors even private companies dey make erroneous payments and at the end of the day Dem go still notify the staff for deduction talk more of a Govt wey dey pay thousands of workers,the point I dey try to make be say No Govt is above mistakes as errors is inevitable.  This is only a one month deduction, Nigeria workers go survive am, they don see worst so I believe Dem go survive this one.

we know say this Govt dey corrupt right from the very beginning.Even though no govt dey above mistakes Nigeria govt own look suspicious because of dere corruption nature. The strategy wey dis Govt fit use be this,Dem fit creates  thousands of ghosts workers accounts,Dem go come over credits those  accounts with the excuse say na mistakes and at the end of the day Dem go retrieve the money back,pocket am for dere accounts Den deletes the records.

We hear a lot of upsetting things nowadays in this country, are they telling us that the country financial system are people who doesn't no their duty very well?, I don't believe if they made an excessive payments by mistakes because if it was done by mistake they would have even inform all the federal workers then but how come December, January and February has passed and they are just passing the order of deduction this month, actually is going to be a negative blow to all the federal workers because if it was a choice for them they would have not accept to receive and being deducted now because their salaries are not much and now it could be slides into three places and the government take one and give them just two, actually this will cause poor performances in their working places because until all the money is recovered back they will not be satisfied with the one they would be paid.

Tinubu na real T-Pain. Why him nor start wit reducing d jumbo salaries and allowances of lawmakers and his aides? Why touch salaries of those wey nor even dey breathe well in the first place? I nor know who else don observe how dis govment wan take tax and tariff here and there take press awa neck break wetin nor good at all cost.

Like play like play this country is getting bad every day oh. Because if really this was an excess payment that the government is reducing to cover up cost, then no wahala. But if it was money that was thought to have been Christmas bonus that the federal government is now calling excess payment and wants to deduct from their salaries, then it's really a sad news to go by. Because considering the amount of hardship that is currently affecting lives, how much is even this amount that they want to deduct from civil servants salary? Is it even up to the amount they use in buying bullet proof cars? Or neither up to the amount senators and house of rep members share every week as sitting allowances?. Because,  I think it's high time president Bola Admed Tinubu needs to allow citizens of Nigeria breathe in peace, abeg.

If this information is correct that they over paid the FG workers during the festive period then this said amount  that's said to be an over stretched amount does it include Christmas bonus??? If not then I don't think they should cut anyone's salaries but if the initial bonus was included and the amounts paid were still large then getting it back is not a bad idea. But here is my problem, this government is not looking out for its people at all. How do they intend to get this money back?? How are we sure that they won't over cut the salaries of these workers? How are we sure that the amount that would be realised after this exercise will not surmount the initial amount that was disbursed? And if the amount realised after retracting funds in other to get the over disbursed amount is more that what was given out will there be a refund or will they pocket the money.  I can't trust anything from these people because their lies fit make person think say him dey insane.

Our leaders are so wicked. I don't believe they should think of this in this hard time. Civil servant are suffering, their pay rate is far more than their expenditure. If they are overpaid by December and the government want to remove that from their salary, this should be done in a way that won't affect them.

Well if it’s as a result of excessive payments made on December 2024 that led to the deduction of the salaries of civil servants I don’t have a problem with that, obviously they are trying to recoup their money back. You know this present government are very tricky and selfish that they devise trickery means to achieve what they want as far as it will benefit them alone undermining how the masses will feel about their decision. Who knows if they are doing it deliberately so they can pay off the debts they owed china you never can tell, but let’s watch and see how long the deduction continues. Na them Dey borrow money, but na we Dey pay back indirectly.

We all voted this man in,and now we are complaining,lol,
As for me,I don't know anything about him,I never voted for him because I knew he was already old and his way of reasoning will definitely affect people.
If when things are already like this in the country,that he is ordering for deduction of salary,it simply means he doesn't know what he is doing.He enjoys when people suffer more,he has no regret about any action he takes because at the end of the day, nothing affects him.