THE National Association of Military Pensioners, NAMP, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to direct the Ministry of Defense to pay all military pensioners the 53 per cent pension increment and arrears owed to them.

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RECENTLY, Lagos State Pension Commission, LASPEC, organised a seminar in conjunction with stakeholders in the Contributory Pension and Insurance sectors to sensitize workers who are retiring between January and June, 2012 from the core Civil Service, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Parastatals and Local Government Service.

FORMER board member of National Pension Commission, PenCom, representing organized Labour, Comrade Ivor Takor, has said the failure by employers to remit the pension contributions of workers to the Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs is a big challenge facing the reform, which may affect retirees of non compliant organizations in future.

SINCE the January 1, 2012, hike in pump price of petrol to N141 from the N65 per liter, workers in the country have been finding it difficult to cope with the socio-economic consequences. Even after the price was slashed to N97, the high cost of living occasioned by the January 1, hike, has remained astronomical and it has become increasingly hard for workers to grapple with the cost of living.