THE Military Pension Board, MPB, has dismissed the claims by a cross section of ex-servicemen that it was given N70 billion by the Federal Government to pay their arrears, including 12.5% and 15% salary-increase arrears which they alleged were either partially paid or not paid at all.

FEDERAL Civil Service Pensioners have called on President Jonathan to sack the Head of Service, HOS, of the Federation, Mr. Steve Orasonya, for allegedly refusing to pay their accumulated pension arrears and other benefits despite the provision of such payments in the 2010 budget.

WEDNESDAY, October 13, 2010, for a long time come, certainly will remain indelible in the annals of labour movement in Nigeria. It was a day four officials of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) including the President, Comrade Hamman Gidado, met their untimely death in a ghastly auto-crash along Abuja Airport Road, on their way to catch a flight to Lagos.

THERE are strong indications that a crisis of confidence is now rocking the Military Pension Board, MPB, and some military pensioners have called on President Jonathan to investigate how the N70 billion meant for the stellement of their benefits was disbursed.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has called on the Federal Government to halt planned by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to draw about N400 billion from the accumulated pension fund to fund power sector project.