Tag: Pensioners
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PTAD pays over N1bn to 776 deceased pensioners’ Next of Kin
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), has paid more than N1,644, billion to 776 verified and eligible Next of Kin (NoK) of deceased pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).
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Ogun Gov’t refutes invitation of pensioners’ next-of-kin
The Ogun State Government has described as false and misleading a notice, attributed to the Bureau of State Pension, inviting the next-of-kin of deceased pensioners to undergo a screening process. Mrs Arinola Adetayo, the Permanent Secretary of the Bureau, disowned the notice in a statement in Abeokuta on Thursday.
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Edo announces date to begin screening of 2011 LGA pensioners
Edo State Government has said that the screening exercise for local government pensioners, who retired in 2011, would begin on October 21.
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How pensioners are dying due to hardship – NUP
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), says many members are dying due to hardship caused by the economic downturn.
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Pensioners demand inclusion in minimum wage committee
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has urged the Federal Government to include their members in the tripartite committee on the national minimum wage review.. Mr Godwin Abumisi, National President of NUP requested a news conference addressed by the union on Thursday in Abuja.
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Gov. Mutfwang promises to clear N30bn pension arrears
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, has promised to clear the backlog of pension arrears, amounting to N30 billion, to alleviate the sufferings of retirees in the state.
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Cross River pensioners dissatisfied about two cups of rice palliative
Pensioners in the Calabar branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) say the 400 bags of rice given to 2.5 million of them to share as palliative are grossly inadequate. The Calabar branch of NUP covers Odukpani, Calabar Municipality, Calabar South
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Tinubu approves grants payment to vulnerable pensioners
President Bola Tinubu has approved the payment of N25,000 monthly grants to vulnerable pensioners captured in the expanded National Social Register of the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme.
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CCT Scheme: FG announces N25,000 grant to vulnerable pensioners
The Federal Government has announced a special grant of N25,000 each under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Scheme to vulnerable pensioners in the country. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr
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Subsidy removal: S’West pensioners demand N40,000 minimum pension
Pensioners in the South-West geo-political zone have demanded for N40,000 minimum pension from the governors in the zone. The pensioners made the demand at the end of the meeting of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP