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ASEPS, the Anambra State Enterprise Payroll System
A ghost cannot smile at a camera.
The state payroll and HR system for the State civil service, the State teaching service, local government staff and pensioners. Nobody is paid until they prove they are real, alive and themselves, and every change is written to a tamper-evident audit trail. NORA works beside every officer who runs it.
What it does
All 16 features
- Identity-first verification: live selfie, liveness and face match, NIN and BVN checks, duplicate detection and ten layers of fraud screening; uncertain cases go to a human reviewer.
- Self-onboarding from the person's own phone for serving staff and pensioners, guided by NORA; an officer can also hand a capture to the person to finish on their own phone.
- A printable beneficiary certificate with a QR code anyone can scan to confirm it is genuine, without exposing personal data.
- An approval chain before anyone is active: HR review, Head of Service approval, Finance approval.
- Payroll engines for PAYE, pension, NHF and NHIS, with a 30 per cent net-pay floor so deductions never crush take-home pay.
- Leave and leave allowance, attendance, loans, promotions and step increments, retirement and pensions.
- The employee portal: each public servant's own workspace to apply for leave, download payslips and see their record.
- Workforce intelligence: staff distribution, school coverage, understaffed schools and teacher recruitment needs.
- Secure communications: direct and bulk messages, flash announcements and secure documents with read receipts.
- Report Studio and state payroll reconciliation.
- A tamper-evident audit trail: every change is chained to the one before it.
- NORA in every officer's workspace, page-aware, with about 95 purpose-built skills and nearly 800 system operations reachable by conversation; every change goes on a confirmation card, sensitive steps need the officer's own authenticator code, and maker-checker steps stay with two different officers.
- NORA dry-run mode: simulate leave requests and preview payroll effects with every real rule applied and nothing changed.
- NORA historical payslip delivery: an officer can send up to five people their genuine past payslips as encrypted, watermarked PDFs to their own email, with the password sent separately by SMS to their own phone.
- Officers can plan and submit their own leave through NORA, with every rule checked first.
- About 5,000 automated checks run every time the system changes.
How it works
Step by step, start to finish
A public servant or pensioner is verified and placed on the payroll
Step 1 of 9
Who uses it
People it serves
- Every public servant and pensioner
- HR and payroll officers
- Ministry of Finance
- Office of the Head of Service
- Accountant-General
- Civil Service Commission
- Auditors
- Local government HR
- Pension administrators
In practice
What it looks like
A retired teacher verifies himself from his armchair with a live selfie and his identity numbers, with no queue and no bus fare.
A pension officer asks NORA: 'Explain how a pension is calculated, in simple terms', and gets a worked example for a teacher.
An HR officer asks NORA: 'Which schools are understaffed? How many teachers do we need to recruit?'
An officer asks NORA: 'Simulate annual leave for this officer from 9 to 13 November and show the remaining balance.'
An officer asks NORA: 'Enrol a new hire for me'; NORA fills the form and the new hire takes the live selfie themselves.
Why it matters
What changes
- The state pays real, living people and only them
- Pensioners verify from home
- Officers run complex offices by conversation, without weeks of training
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