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Withholding Pensions Is Wickedness – Peter Ob

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:49 +0000

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned the withholding of pensions and gratuities of senior citizens, describing it as an act of wickedness. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, attributed the plight of many retirees to the greed and desperation for material wealth among political leaders, which he said had made life [...]

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2024 Pension Boost: Federal Government Considers Salary Increase, Says NSIWC

Temitope Nlewemchi — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:10:51 +0000

InfoStride News reported that the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission (NSIWC) has hinted at a possible increase in pension stipends for federal civil service retirees in the coming year. The information is derived from details found in the report on pension harmonization submitted by the NSIWC to the Federal Government. The proposed increment in [...]

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Civil Servants protest over Ogun State Government’s Unkept Promises [VIDEO]

Ogun News — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:41:19 +0000

Ogun State Civil Servants under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) recently protested in Abeokuta over the State Governor’s unkept promises over salary, promotions, gratuity, contributory pensions etc. Watch the protest video below and share your comments:

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SERAP Support Bukola Saraki’s Idea To Stop Receiving Pensions

David Folami — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 04:14:46 +0000

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has welcomed Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki’s step to stop receiving pensions from Kwara state. The group also begged him to join in the campaign to end the unjust, unfair and discriminatory practice of providing life pensions to former governors and to cancel laws that make this possible. [...]

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N7.9b Paris Club Refund: Oyo State to use 60% for Salaries, Wages and Pensions – Finance Commissioner

Kunle Atiba — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:40:58 +0000

The Government of Oyo State has disclosed that 60% of the latest tranche of Paris Club Refund totalling N7.9 billion will be expended on salaries, wages and pensions of workers in the state, saying that its decision to use 100% of its federal allocations for workers’ welfare still stands. The Government has also explained that [...]

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No Money For Salaries, Pensions In 2017 – Kemi Adeosun

David Folami — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:12:43 +0000

Minister of budget national and planning, Udoma Udoma has said that the the federal government lacks funds for the payment of salaries and pensions in 2017. Udoma stated this on Thursday, April 6, 2017, when he appeared before the House of Representatives alongside finance minister, Kemi Adeosun. Udoma said half of the projected revenue in [...]

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No Excuses For Non-Payment Of Pensions – Yakubu Dogara

David Folami — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:26:02 +0000

Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday urged the executive to ensure that backlog of pensions were paid promptly, warning that excuses would not be accepted. Dogara made this known while reacting to briefing by Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun and her Budget and National Planning counterpart, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, on [...]

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N14.2bn Salaries Payment: CSCEOS insists Governor Aregbesola spent just N4.5billon on Salaries, Pensions

Ade Adewale — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 17:10:46 +0000

An Osun State based civil society organization (CSO), the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has described the State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola as a serial and pathological liar for saying that the State government under his watch spent N14.2billon for the payment of modulated salaries and pensions of workers’ and [...]

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Military Pensions: Adequate Measures In Place To Avoid Any Mishap In Forthcoming Verification Exercise

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:25:19 +0000

The Chairman, Military Pensions Board (MPB), AVM Muhammed Dabo, has allayed fears of any mishap in the forthcoming military pension verification exercise scheduled to hold in designated centres between Oct. 6 and Oct. 20. Dabo said this in Abuja on Friday while briefing newsmen on the forthcoming verification exercise for military pensioners in and outside [...]

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