•Some of the protesting military retirees The meeting between the management of the Military Pension Board (MPB) and the retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces to resolve the disagreement on the monthly pension ended in a stalemate yesterday as the veterans insisted that their newly approved monthly pay should be re-calculated. The dead...
•Governor Umo Eno UTIBE-IMA OKON, Uyo reporting Akwa Ibom people, non-indigenes and those in the diaspora have continued to express appreciation to Governor Umo Eno over his commitment to clearing the inherited backlog of gratuity payments, describing the planned payment of gratuities alongside salaries from 2027 as a significant relief for re...
•Pensioners The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria is planning a nationwide naked protest to press home its demand for payment of its members’ outstanding pension increment arrears and palliative allowances. The coalition’s National Chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, made this known in a statement today in Lagos. Ogunbote is also the Chair...
•Nigerian pensioners The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria has threatened a nationwide naked protest on November 24, if government fails to pay their outstanding pension increment arrears and palliative allowances. The coalition’s National Chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, announced this while briefing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday. Ogunbo...
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners Contributory Pension Scheme Sector, NUPCPS, has condemned the removal of retired workers from accessing the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, describing the decision as unfair and inhumane. The National Secretary of NUPCPS, Mr. John Bisan, voiced the union’s displeasure during a two-day Sensitisation and E...
Retirees under the auspices Nigerian Union of Pensioners representing various agencies including Nitel, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria and Nigerian Railway Corporation today protested their unpaid entitlements and up to 35 months pension arrears, and non-payment of N35,000 palliative. They also called on the federal government to give a ...
•Car smashes through front of house after crash Two pensioners have died after a car being chased by traffic officers crashed into their care home in northern England, police said on Friday. The women, one in her 80s, the other in her 90s, died yesterday, a day after the incident, police in northeastern Northumbria said […]
Pensioners under the aegis of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Southwest zone, have lamented the backlog of unpaid gratuities and pension arrears owed to retirees in the region. The pensioners, who threatened not to vote for any governor who fails to cater to their welfare and well-being in the 2027 general elections, appealed to [&hell...
•Some Nigerian pensioners protest The Nigeria Union of Pensioners, South-West Zone on Thursday lamented the failure of the government to implement the N32,000 pension increase across board for the pensioners as directed by President Bola Tinubu last year September. President Tinubu was said to have given the directive at the commencement of pa...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved the sum of ₦100,000 for civil servants, public servants, and pensioners in the state. The approval was communicated in a statement that was signed and released by the States Head of Service, George Nwaeke, yesterday. Dr. Nwaeke said the approval, which was given...
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