Payroll and Information System: A Nigerian Case Study

This report delves into the critical issue of ghost workers and its impact on unemployment within Nigeria, focusing on how the integration of payroll and information systems can help to mitigate the problem. It examines the historical context, including the government's efforts to curb financial losses due to non-existent employees. The paper analyzes the effects of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), implemented across various ministries and agencies, and its role in saving billions of Naira. It explores the alarming rates of unemployment in Nigeria compared to other countries, highlighting the socio-economic consequences and the link to corruption. The study also discusses the challenges faced by employees and the significance of integrating payroll systems to improve financial management, reduce corruption, and enhance public services. The research draws from both primary and secondary data sources, utilizing statistical methods to analyze the relationship between ghost workers and employee productivity. It concludes with recommendations for leveraging payroll and information systems to foster economic growth and reduce unemployment. The report highlights the importance of transparency, accountability, and efficient resource management in the Nigerian context.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The syndrome related to the ghost worker has been considered as one of the menace
existing across all of the tiers belonging to that of the government. This has also led the
government towards the spending of a huge amount of money in billions related to naira that
seems as a result from the money that is being siphoned along with the payments made to the
employees non-existent [3]. Consequent to this, the annual increase following a geometric
manner within the increase of the wages that has been a rising concern, making the Nigerian
Labor has reached the level of saturation as well as a hit to the economy of the nation that has
been jeopardized. This particular paper has the primary objective of examining the effects
upon the syndrome belonging to the ghost workers as well as the how the instrumentality of
the integration in relation to the payroll as well as the information system could meet the
menace that has been caused within the service offered specifically to the public. The
researchers addressing this particular issue have gathered all of the related data that is a
mixture of primary as well as secondary form. All of the related data within this article has
been analyzed utilizing the simple percentage along with the inclusion of frequency tables as
well as the mean score in accordance to the spearman rank order technique correlation [6].
All of the important aspects along with all of the existing issues, which led to the concerns of
the syndrome belonging to the ghost workers.
Discussion
The minister of Finance in Nigeria in the month of February, in the year of 2011 that
has placed forward the revelations that all of the pilot that shall undergo the procedure of
implementation of the particular integrated personnel. This specifically, has led the payroll
information system in sixteen of the existing ministries along with that of the departments as
well as the agencies that had specifically saved the nation over a billion of N12 between the

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year of 2007 to 2010 [10]. This specific implementation of pilot had been necessary
considering all of the facts related to the government wages bill that had the constitution of a
huge amount of recurring expenditure aimed at a percentage of 58 in reference to the annual
budget.
The Nigerian rate of unemployment has increased significantly to 23.9 percent in the
year of 2011 from the rate of 21 percent that had been observed in the year of 2010, as well
as an average visible rate of 14.6 from the year of 2006. Again, in the year of 2014 a specific
rate of 80 percent Nigerians had been unemployed [1]. This specifically has an impact upon
the socio-economic fortunes belonging to the citizens of the country as well as the rate related
to the corruption that has been the obvious cause of this particular trend in comparison to the
other existing nations such as the likes of China having a percentage of 4.1 related to the
unemployment. On the other hand, the United Kingdom has the percentage of 5.5 in relation
to the unemployed people [8]. In addition to this, the United States has a similar percentage to
that of United Kingdom having the same rate of 5.5 percent unemployment having a much
lower rate of corruption that took place behind the scenes of unemployment.
However, the knowledge regarding the effect upon the unemployment has put forward
results including the syndrome of the ghost workers as a reference to all the previous
researches that have taken place having the prime focus upon the effects related to the
unemployment [12]. The researches also had the prime focus upon the integrated
implementation of the payroll along with that of the information system having the inclusion
of specially the administration taking place within the local government that has not been
given an imminent spotlight, hence, creating a huge gap that needs to be filled with the
measures mitigating the reasons that led to unemployment.

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The integration of the payroll as well as the information system along with the
Government integrating within the financial management. This also includes the addition of
information system, carrying the special ability of enhancing the accountability as well as the
transparency existing within the management of the resources present to the government [2].
Howsoever, the federal ministry belonging to the finance had visibly observed in the year of
2013 that specifically the IPPIS has enhanced the efficient personnel related cost along with
that of the planning as well as the budgeting of the personnel cost that had been completely
based upon the verified aim.
On a consequent manner, this had led to the opening of a number of opportunities for
the employment of the citizens having greatly reduced the corruption existing within the
public services as well as the reduction of costs belonging to the personnel. The related
efficiency existing within the business transaction entirely belonging to the government has
been greatly enhanced [9]. More or so, this has again enhanced the confidence existing within
the costs of the payroll as well as the budgeting, having greatly improved the management of
reporting as well as the information. This also has the inclusion of rebuilding the confidence
relying upon the public provisioning with special opportunities having aimed at a better
facility within the infrastructure, creating a conducive work related atmosphere as well as the
job security [7].
However, the envisaged challenges that have been approached by the individual
employees has the necessary inclusion of the job act, the bureaucratic bottleneck, wickedness
unionism, largely decayed infrastructure as well as much more reduced fortunes meant for the
recruitments.
This study has been specifically carried out upon the staff belonging to the Kogi State
Local Government Service Commission having the located headquarters situated at Lokoja

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[5]. The present headquarters situated in Lokoja is perfectly present at the confluence of the
rivers Niger and the Benue as well as having the nestles at the foot of the mountain named
Patti.
This paper specifically puts forward the revelations that the mutual relationship
between the syndrome belonging to the ghost workers and the productivity related to the
employees of the organizations operating in the varied regions of Nigeria. This has eventually
manifested the negative influences having related to the experiences resulting to an outcome
of having the possession of a low morale existing within the employees, corruption existing
within the monument, reduction of the employee carriage as well as dampened efficiency
[11]. Through this, the employees have been seen eager to reach far more advancement
towards the improvement of the efficiency having much more lying opportunity for the
intellectual advancement due to the presence of lower economic power as well as irregular
payment of salaries. This is all because of the fact related to the bloated wage bill because of
the variously existing fictitious identity names belonging to the employees. On the final note,
the political influence from that of the local government administration has the inclusion of
such constraints [4]. This is in compliance with that of the effectiveness as well as the
efficiency having introduced the integration related to the payroll as well as the information
system having to travel a long way mitigating all of the negative trends in relation to the
unemployment.
Conclusion
All of the above discussion that has been carried out in accordance with the article,
can be placed forward as result from the data analysis that has been carried out in accordance
to the study that has been carried out. Eventually the study that meant, in order to get hold of
the actual data belonging to the cause of unemployment in the varied regions of Nigeria. The

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paper puts forward a lot of issue that have been highlighted in accordance with the syndrome
belonging to the ghost workers. This syndrome has been visibly imminent having a high
occurrence within the services that has been particularly offered to the public as well as the
reason carrying the fact that this has not only affected the performance of the employees
having posed a major threat to the economy of the nation. In reference to the findings that
have been included within the analysis of the data, a number of findings have been
highlighted along with the signification measures of mitigation aimed at. The paper also has a
significant approach to the percentage of unemployment that has been particularly visible in
the selected regions of United Kingdom, United States as well as Nigeria. Hence, a specific
integration of the payroll as well as the information system has been approached within the
discussion of the research as well.

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