To qualify for a monthly salary, the Bauchi state government has introduced a handheld fingerprint device to clock workers in and out of their duty posts. The device, according to the state commissioner of education, Dr. Aliyu Tilde was introduced by the ministry to put the menace of ghost workers, absenteeism and indolence under check. Tilde lamented that before his appointment as the commissioner, about 53.5 percent of workers were shunning their duty post which has drawn the state’s education sector backward. He said: “We now have the device in all the...