RSG Lifts Embargo On Promotion, Employment

The Rivers State Government says it has lifted the ban on promotions in the civil service.
The state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike stated this during the 2019 workers day celebration at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Elekahia, Port Harcourt, last Wednesday.
Represented by his Deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo, the governor said the Chairman of the State Civil Service Commission had already been directed to conduct interviews and effect the promotion of civil servants to their next salary grade levels.
He noted that he has also approved the recruitment of Rivers indigenes to fill existing vacancies as part of efforts to strengthen the civil service for effective service delivery to the Rivers people.
Wike said that the government under his watch was committed to tackling social issues by creating the enabling environment for the private sector to create jobs and empower the youths.
“We are also strengthening our educational system to ensure that our graduates are imbued with appropriate skills and the mindset to become job creators rather than job seekers, and will also continue to implement effective policies and programmes that will address and lift our people from poverty to economic prosperity”, Wike further stressed.
The state chief executive also disclosed that government has started implementing the N100million interest free-loan for civil servants in a bid to advance the welfare and wellbeing of civil servants.
Wike promised to pay the new minimum wage as soon as he receives the official transmission from the Federal Government while noting that the Pension Reform Bill which has just been passed by the State House of Assembly, when signed into law, would bring into existence a seamless and positive pension scheme for workers in the state.
The governor, who described his administration as worker-friendly, said that despite financial challenges, his government was up to date in the payment of full salaries and pensions to working and retired civil servants, stressing that his promise to construct befitting secretariats for the state chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has been fulfilled and would soon be handed over.