Tag: Pensioners
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Rivers pensioners to protest over unpaid gratuities
Pensioners in Rivers State have threatened a mass protest over the inability of the state government to look into their welfare, despite recurrent efforts to get the attention of the government. Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners in Rivers State, Collins Nwankwo, handed down the threat during the South-South Zonal meeting of the…
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Pension fund crisis: We’ll remit last 2 tranches before end of 2019 – NSITF
…says issues of NHS passbooks are being treated By Emman Ovuakporie The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF has promised its pensioners that the last two tranches of pension funds would be paid before the end of 2019. The agency also promised to urgently look into the issue of National Housing Scheme, NHS passbooks to…
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Ortom apologises to Benue pensioners over N20bn arrears
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue, on Friday, met with the protesting pensioners in the state, promising to release N611million to complete the payment of their April and May 2018 pensions, out of 25 months or N20 billion owed. The governor, who met the aggrieved pensioners at the entrance of the Government House in Makurdi where…
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The Pathetic Destiny of Pensioners in Nigeria, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo Our collective sense of compassion may have become dulled, overtime, to media reports and images of emaciated senior citizens collapsing, after waiting endlessly in long queues, under the hot tropical sun, for verification and payment of pension entitlements. In reality, the victims of this oppression, have no ethnic or religious colouration,…
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Gov. Obaseki releases N1. 5bn for arrears of LG pensioners
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has released the sum of N1.5billion for payment of arrears of local government pensioners in the state. Mr Jimoh Ijegbai, the state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs made the disclosure on Friday, while addressing members of the Local Government Pensioners’ Association (LGPA) in Benin. Ijegbai said the N1.…
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JUST IN: Pensioners protest non-payment of arrears in finance ministry
There was pandemonium on Wednesday at the Ministry of Finance as retired civil servants on Wednesday stormed the ministry to protest the non-payment of their accumulated pensions. The workers numbering about 100 carried placards with various inscriptions demanding explanations from ministry officials on why the backlogs of their pensions have not been paid. The demonstration…
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Aregbesola is a liar, workers, pensioners in Osun not yet paid – DSM
Sequel to a statement credited to the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola that his administration has cleared salary arrears of workers and pensioners in the state, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) has faulted the claim insisting that the governor is yet to make the payments. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Aregbesola made the comment on Wednesday…
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I’m not owing workers, pensioners in Osun – Aregbesola
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said he is not owing civil servants and pensioners in the state salaries. Aregbesola said this on Wednesday in Osogbo at a symposium organised by the Osun Command of the Police Community Relations Committee. The governor said in spite of the economic challenges confronting the nation and the…
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Pay us from Paris Club refunds, Osun pensioners beg government
A segment of pensioners from Osun on Tuesday said that the state government should pay their outstanding 12 months’ pensions and gratuities from the just released second tranche of the Paris Club refunds. The pensioners, who belong to the Forum of 2011/12 Retired Public Servants, made the demand at a press conference in Osogbo. They…
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2019: Get your voters’ card to kick out anti-labour politicians, Wabba urges workers, pensioners
The President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba has urged pensioners and active workers who are yet to get their voters card to do so on time as that (the voters card) remain the only veritable tool to kick out politicians who operate anti-labour policies. Wabba said this when he paid a familarisation visit…