•Naira notes Under the National Pension Commission’s rules for the Contributory Pension Scheme, Nigerian workers may access part of their retirement savings while still employed, though only under specific conditions. Under the scheme, both employers and employees contribute monthly to a Retirement Savings Account, reports The PUNCH. Normally,...
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has decried the dwindling value of pensions received by retirees in the oil and gas industry, describing it as worrisome and unsustainable. The union said it was disturbed that many pensioners who retired under the defined benefit schemes decades ago now earn stagnan...
•Sex workers Belgium has enacted a law that grants sex workers the same rights and protections as other workers. The legislation, signed into law yesterday, ensures that sex workers are entitled to maternity leave, pensions, and legal safeguards against exploitation, reports BBC. This decision followed widespread protests in 2022, during which...
•Mama Taiwo Mama Agatha Taiwo Adebiyi was born as a twin in 1920 amidst the Spanish Flu pandemic. She survived the pandemic but her twin sister was unlucky. Today, she is likely the oldest living retired teacher in Nigeria. She talks about her life story in this interview with Sunday Tribune in her Lagos home. […]
•Visiting retired police officers A delegation of retired senior police officers, led by DIG Maigari Dikko (rtd.), visited the Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday, Wednesday, October 16, 2024, to request urgent intervention in addressing their poor retirement benefits and the perceived neglect of retired officers. The delegation, compris...
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo About 6,000 retirees of the liquiÂdated national carrier, Nigeria Airways, have appealed to the federal government to return them to the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS) like their counÂterparts in the other sectors of the economy. Their return to the DBS, they said, would enable them to get their pensions for li...
•Pensioners and Tinubu The agonies of retirees from the Federal Civil Service appear to be getting worse as the federal government has failed to release funds for payment of accrued pension rights in the first half of 2024, H1’24, which ended yesterday. The FG had reneged for the full year 2023, FY’23, as no funds […]
A rights group today called on President Bola Tinubu to stop the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies. The organisation – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in 2017 filed a suit seeking the repeal of pensions for former governors and their deputies across all states of the federation, reports Channel...
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