THE Federal Government has finally released N35 billion to settle long-standing salary arrears of staff in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). Of the amount, over N30 billion would be devoted to verified MDAS. breakdown of the payments revealed that the first six batches were for 231 MDAs enrolled under the IPPIS, while there was another batch comprised 36 Non-IPPIS MDAs. He further stated that another set of 68 MDAs, comprising a batch of 54 IPPIS MDAs and another batch of 12 Non-IPPIS MDAs respectively have also been verified and their monies were been processed for payment. The total sum of N8,249,083,829.50 has been released for the settlement of these verified MDAs.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 15, 2018 19:05 UTC