The ongoing pension crisis in Abia State has taken a dramatic turn, with Governor Alex Otti accusing leaders of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) of...
Pensioners who retired from the Federal Civil Service have threatened a nationwide protest over the failure of the Federal Government to pay their wage awards. The...
Nigerian pensioners have called on President Bola Tinubu to rethink the removal of petrol subsidy which they say has brought unbearable hardship, pains and frustration to...
The Oyo State Government has alerted citizens that some unscrupulous elements have been swindling pensioners in the state, with a promise to fast track their gratuities....
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), on Monday, appealed to the Federal Government to include its members in the distribution of the proposed palliatives to cushion...
Pensioners in Ogun State on Thursday protested the non-payment of their outstanding gratuities and arrears since 2019. The pensioners who came together under the aegis of...
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has announced payment of N12.3 billion to 11,145 retired workers of Nitel and Mtel. PTAD Executive Secretary, Chioma Ejikeme disclosed...
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has repatriated £26.5 million colonial pension funds trapped in the United Kingdom for many years. The money was recovered from...
Osun State Pensioners have agreed to take legal action against the State for its failure to pay their arrears and monetize their promotions while in service....
The Pension Commission (PenCom) has revealed that 2,084 private and public workers have shared N519.51 million as retirement benefits from their pension account. PenCom disclosed this...
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has revealed that the families of 1,209 dead private and government employees have received death payments totaling N6.17 billion. PenCom disclosed...
The National Pension Commission (NPC) has revealed that in the first six months of 2021, sacked workers of private and government institutions withdrew N9.45 billion from...
President Muhammadu Buhari under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS) has signed an approval for the payment of minimum wage to pensioners across the country. This was...
Pensioners under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) would embark on a nationwide protest from Friday morning to press home their demand for...
Residents and pensioners of Rivers State Thursday expressed their displeasure over Governor Nyesom Wike’s donation of N500 million to rebuild the Sokoto Central Market which was...
The Lagos State government has endorsed a 33% increment for all the state pensioners under the Defined Benefits Scheme (Pay as You Go) with effect from...
Pensioners in the country have kicked against the decision of the Federal Government to remove a total of 23,089 pensioners’ names from the pension payroll effective...
In a bid to ameliorate the effect of the hardship of the lockdown, to curtail the spread of Covid-19, the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) Ogun...
Retired civil servants on Monday laid siege to Abia State government house in Umuahia over their unpaid 20-month pension arrears. The pensioners, clad in mournful attires,...
The recent protest by an aggrieved faction of pensioners against the Benue State government has been blamed on the All Progressive Congress (APC) The accusation was...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has begged protesting pensioners in the state for forgiveness over months of unpaid pension, promising that funds would be released for...
No fewer than 1000 pensioners under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Oyo State on Tuesday stormed the state governor, Seyi Makinde’s office...
Pensioners in Osun state, on Tuesday requested the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to commence an immediate probe of the immediate past governor of the...
Pensioners in the South-West geopolitical zone under the umbrella of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, has called for immediate reduction of the salaries and allowances given...
The federal government is making plans to pay pensioners who retired in January and February 2017 under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) soon, LEADERSHIP can now...
A recent report published by Budgit, a social advocacy platform primarily engaged in simplifying the budget and matters of public spending for citizens, has blown the...
The National Pension Commission has said its management would not risk investing pension funds in any sector due to insincerity plaguing the system. This is in...
Thousands of Nigerian pensioners were denied their payments during the Yuletide period due to CBN’s misunderstanding with commercial banks over non acceptance of biometric exercise carried...
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has said the ongoing clamour for deployment of the N6 billion consolidated contributory savings for pensioners on other aspects of the...
Despite government overtures for all stakeholders to allow it concession the six major airports in Nigeria, pensioners of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have...
The Nasarawa State Government has released over N60 million for the payment of backlog of pensions and gratuities to pensioners in the state. Mr Muazu Adamu-Gosho,...
The difficulty accessing funds has pushed government to explore all avenues of borrowing money to fund its budget, including the contributory pension scheme (CPS), now put...
The Kogi State government lost a whooping N213,034,857,280bn to ghost workers in 16 years, the state Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala, has revealed. Okala stated this...
The 50th birthday anniversary of Akwa Ibom state Governor, Emmanuel Udom was remarkably celebrated with pensioners in the state protesting that he pays them their entitlements....
The Federal Government is set to review the existing pension scheme in line with the provisions of the enabling law, the Minister of Labour and Employment,...
Pensioners, who retired from the Edo State public service, Monday, took to the streets, protesting the non-payment of 42 month pension arrears by the state government....
The over N5.3trillion pension funds in the custody of the National Pension Commission is safe and secured, Eguarekhide Longe, chairman, Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the suspended Director General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Mrs Nelly Mayshak over an alleged...
By Prince Charles Dickson…The blind person who shuts his eyes and says he is asleep; when he was not asleep whom did he see? As...
The recent suspension of Mrs. Nellie Mayshak, may come as a surprise to many, as she is one of the only government officials hired by the...
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners has urged the federal government to immediately pay its members the 42 months pension arrears. The body made this appeal on...
In from Ali Smart … The Federal University Pensioners’ Association (FUPA) has uncovered an alleged plot by a federal government agency, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD,)...
Military pensioners in the country have directed their members all over the country to get ready for a mass action to protest what they said was...
