The five months investigation began when Africa eye was approached by Obaji Akpet, a reporter/producer from Cross River State (Southern Nigeria), who told us that his mother, a nurse, did not start getting her pension payments as would be normal, when she retired and that she was being asked to pay cash directly to an official working in the pension department before they would pay out her pension.
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Shenpam, 62, and father of four children, told the News Agency of Nigeria that life had been miserable since his statutory retirement in 2018.
The Benue government has 8,910 pensioners in its pay roll, according to Mr Francis Tile, Permanent Secretary, Benue State Bureau of Salaries and Pensions.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, Abia chapter, says the state needs N25billion to enable it clear the arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuity.
According to him: “When President Muhammadu Buhari promised to ensure the refund of all the over deductions to the states, I made up my mind that we cannot enter January 2017 with these arrears unpaid
The Chairman of NLC in the state, Yekini Agunbiade, and the Secretary of the NULGE in the state, Abayomi Afolabi, made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital
The Plateau State Government has secured N9.5 billion loan and used it for the payment of arrears of salaries…
Umar claimed to have worked at the Local Government for 13 years in a petition dated September 22, 2014 and forwarded to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Ekpo Nta, alleging that the Kaduna State Local Government Staff Pension Board had denied him his retirement benefits
“We have been under pressure from many quarters, including the Senate, to integrate the civilian component of pension, and doing so will further increase the recurrent budget