Tag: Retirees

  • Pension: Pay us our 3 months outstanding, senior citizens tell PTAD

    Pension: Pay us our 3 months outstanding, senior citizens tell PTAD

    …say those above 70yrs no longer receive pensions …after physical capturing …alleged only the connected get paid …we are paying in batches, PTAD source Retirees raise alarm over non-payment of accumulated three months pensions alleging that only those connected to the presidency get paid. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that despite being captured by the Pension Transitional…

  • PTAD: Our members are dying daily, retirees tell FG

    PTAD: Our members are dying daily, retirees tell FG

    …insist those above 70yrs no longer receive pensions …after physical capturing …alleged only the connected get paid …we are paying in batches, PTAD source Retirees raise alarm over non-payment of accumulated three months pensions alleging that only those connected to the presidency get paid. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that despite being captured by the Pension Transitional…

  • Zamfara uncovers 119-year-old, 484 other retirees ‘ghost workers’ on payroll

    Zamfara uncovers 119-year-old, 484 other retirees ‘ghost workers’ on payroll

    A ghost worker who by the records had retired from the Zamfara state civil service has remained on the payroll and he is now 119 years old. The fictive centenarian is among 485 workers who were supposed to have gone on retirement but are collecting salaries. The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed this…

  • LASG pays N1.63b to 321 retirees in December

    LASG pays N1.63b to 321 retirees in December

    The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Friday said it had credited the Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) of 321 retirees with the sum of N1.63 billion for December.   The Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Pensions, Mrs Ajibola Ponnle, said this at the 70th Batch Retirement Benefit Bond Certificate presentation to some of the retirees in…

  • 900 Nigeria Airways retirees die awaiting pensions

    900 Nigeria Airways retirees die awaiting pensions

    A member of the Ministerial Committee on the verification of payment of retired Nigeria Airways workers ,Captain Shu’aibu Alfa, revealed yesterday that 900 retirees have so far died nationwide since 2004. Alfa, who is the Supervisor, Kano Verification Centre, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that there are three centres where the…

  • Breaking: Ambode releases N795 million to retirees

    Another batch of Public Service Retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme has been paid N795 million as accrued pension rights for the month of September 2018 by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led Lagos State Government. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Dr. Akintola Benson-Oke, the State Commissioner, Ministry of Establishments Training and Pensions, made this known on Wednesday while…

  • Pension: Lagos state retirees get N466.86m payment

    The Lagos State Government has again credited N466.855m to the Retirement Savings Accounts of 187 of its retirees, including those of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), under the Contributory Pension Scheme for the month of July 2018. The State Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Dr. Akintola Benson-Oke, who disclosed this recently, stated…

  • Nasarawa increases retirees’ pension to N5,000

    The Director-General of Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, Mr. Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, said on Saturday the state government has increased the minimum pension of retirees to N5, 000. Sani-Oseze, who disclosed this in Lafia, said government made the adjustment in order to make life more meaningful for pensioners in the state. He said some workers, who retired…

  • Accrued pension debt: LASG approves N711m for 287 retirees in September

    The Lagos State Government has disbursed the sum of N711 million as pension payments for the month of September. The Lagos State Pension Commission (LASPEC) in a statement on Monday by its Head of Public Affairs Unit, Mrs Basirat Lawal, said the N711 million was released to pay 287 retirees for that month. LASPEC said…