According to reports, the retirees representing various state chapters lamented the severe hardships faced due to the failure of the National Pension Commission to pay their entitlements.
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A press release issued by the Commission’s management Sunday alleged that the promoters of accusation went to the extent of manufacturing documents and listing non-existent bank accounts to make the fabrication look real, a claim it stressed can never become the truth, no matter “how many times it is repeated and recycled”.
NGOs would begin to issue statements threatening brimstone and fire. They would start organising public protests.
Consequently, it has demanded the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Director of Budget Office to furnish it with copies of the budget of the PENCOM from 2019 to 2022 immediately for scrutiny.
The judge, Justice Benedict Kanyip, delivering the judgment on Thursday, also declared that failure and refusal of the defendants to yield to the legitimate request of the claimant to withdraw 50 per cent of her RSA was a violation and negation of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
The Director General, PenCom , Aisha Dahir-Umar, said this at the 2021 Journalists Workshop held on Monday in Lagos.
This was sequel to PenCom’s submission to the President on the payment of some critical aspects of the outstanding pension liabilities of the Federal Government under the Contributory Pension Scheme.
Anyim Nyerere, Commissioner, Technical, PenCom, said this at a Workshop organised by the commission for Pension Desk Officers on Enrollment Application on Wednesday in Lagos.
This was disclosed by the commission in its fourth quarter, 2020, recently, noting that the commission had approved for payment of monthly pensions in the sum of N62,292,272.25 to 3,628 NSITF pensioners.
The Governors last week reportedly proposed to borrow around N17 trillion from the pension funds after receiving a briefing from the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, who is the Chairman of the National Economic Council Ad Hoc Committee on Leveraging Portion of Accumulated Pension Funds for Investment in the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority.
The Head Corporate Communication, PenCom, Peter Aghahowa, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
A statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President disclosed that Buhari, who virtually commissioned the new Head Office Building of Nigerian Police Fund Pensions Ltd, said the government was also focused on ensuring that police officers, who served the nation meritoriously, were resettled into retirement, with some financial support.
Most states across the six geopolitical zones in the country are yet to fully implement the Federal Government’s Contributory Pension Scheme, a report by the National Pension Commission has revealed.
The Imo State Governor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, has restated his administration’s commitment to the implementation of a veritable pension administration in the state.
The National Pension Commission has said its pre-retirement verification exercise for 2020 retirees from Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies would end on August 2.
The National Pension Commission says it is taking practical measures to educate and expose Nigerian youths on the economics and workings of pension administrations and management in the country.
The National Pension Commission says it is targeting no fewer than 30 million Nigerians in its Micro Pension Plan within the next five years.
The National Pension Commission says the country’s total pension assets stand at N8.906 trillion as at February ending as against N9 trillion reported in the media.
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, asked the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to appear before it over alleged discrepancies in the remittance of N33 billion pension deductions by National Pension Commission.
House of Representatives threatens to issue a bench warrant to compel Pension Fund Administrators to appear before its ad hoc committee, if they fail to attend the public hearing on April 4.