The Kwara State Government has revealed that pensioners in the state are yet to benefit from the newly approved minimum wage of N70,000 due to the discovery of widespread payroll fraud in their monthly payment system. In a statement on Sunday, the government explained that delays in payment were also linked to the failure of many pensioners to enrol in …

Members of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Pensioners Association, on Wednesday, staged a protest in Ibadan, Oyo State, demanding the payment of their approved minimum wage and palliative award. The protesters gathered at the Nigeria Union of Journalists secretariat in Iyaganku, Ibadan, wielding placards with messages like, ‘Radio Nigeria Pensioners: Our Sick Pensioners Need Money, Please, Pay Our …

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has directed the release of N3.8 billion to the Kaduna State Pension Bureau to settle gratuities, death benefits, and accrued rights under the Contributory Pension Scheme. This was contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Ibraheem Musa. According to the statement, the decision to release the money was made …

The backlogs of pensions owed by the federal and state governments have increased to over N193billion, according to The PUNCH. Although several states such as Zamfara, Benue, Kaduna, Kano, Nasarawa, and others have been clearing the backlogs, it was gathered that the Federal Government had yet to clear over N88 billion in contributory pensions, while many states were burdened by …

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has processed and paid N395,559,795.09 as death benefits and gratuity to 238 deceased and retired pensioners as of 19 July 2024. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of PTAD, Dr Chioma Ejikeme, during the inauguration of the Kwara State office of the agency in Ilorin, on Tuesday. She said the directorate was determined …

The Ondo State Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on Tuesday, commenced the disbursement of N1 billion second batch payment of outstanding gratuities of civil servants who retired from the Local Government service. Speaking at the flag-off of the disbursement in Akure, the state capital, Aiyedatiwa said his administration reviewed the template for the payment to pensioners, towards speedy process and clearance …

I guess, perhaps that you are conversant with classical tales, that you may have encountered the Penguin Bookshelf or come across Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim Progress. Mine is an inspiration from the classical tales. There is another pleasant tale for you, the tale of Abia pensioners. Our fathers and mothers. The elder statesmen who served …

The Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has handed over documents of properties and 324 houses recovered for Kano State pensioners to the affected individuals. The development was a result of an investigation carried out by the EFCC into a N4.1 billion Pension Trust Fund denied pensioners by successive Kano State government administrations. The EFCC probe …

Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), has lamented that some retirees still earn as low as N1,500 pension, demanding an urgent review to give pensioners living pensions against the hard times. NUP at its South-South zonal forum in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, highlighted the growing hardship members were going through with the current state of the nation’s economy. In a communique, …

Pensioners, who retired from the Local Government Service of Anambra State from 2015 to 2019, yesterday, held a prayer session to mourn four of their colleagues, who allegedly died as a result of their unpaid benefits. The prayer session was to seek God’s intervention to avert more deaths and to survive what they described as the inhuman conditions and intimidation …