Eighteen dead people were among the 433 ghost workers uncovered in Benue Teaching Service Board. The Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Frank Kyungun disclosed this on Tuesday while submitting the report of the screening committee. Kyungun identified challenges confronting the board to include lack of utility vehicles and overhead among others and solicited government’s intervention. Ortom stated that those who had milked the board through ghost workers must be identified and prosecuted, even as he directed that the ghost names be immediately deleted from the payment voucher. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNEFG Increases Hate Speech Fine From N500,000 To N5mTHE Federal Government has announced that its newly- unveiled reviewed Nigeria Broadcasting Code has provisions to increase the hate speech fine for people found culpable of hate speech from N500,000 to N5 million.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 05, 2020 16:30 UTC