The Federal Government of Nigeria has paid the second tranche of the outstanding N35,000 wage award arrears to federal government workers.
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) made this known in a statement issued in Abuja.
He said the Federal Government had earlier paid one month out of the initial five months of outstanding arrears, adding that with the payment of the second tranche, there remained three tranches to exhaust the wage award arrears.
The OAGF said contrary to insinuations in some quarters, the Federal Government had not reneged on payment of the wage award arrears; stressing that the Federal Government would continue to pay the wage award in instalments of N35,000 per month until the outstanding arrears were exhausted.