By Peter Duru – Makurdi A faction of pensioners in Benue state on the aegis of Aggrieved Benue Pensioners, Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest in Makurdi, the state capital demanding the payment of backlog of pension arrears accumulated by successive governments in the state. The pensioners some of who bore placards with inscriptions like “Governor […]

By Haruna Aliyu Kebbi State Pensioners are groaning under unpaid gratuities, lamenting that those who retired in 2016, 2017 and 2018 have not been paid a kobo since the government paid them between 40 and 60 per cent of their total gratuities. Spokesperson of the aggrieved retirees, Alhaji Babangida Garba Gwandu, also expressed sadness that […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Military Pensions Board, MPB, has unveiled its plans to transmute from manual verification of all military pensioners to a more secure and user-friendly electronic verification. The chairman of MPB, Commodore Saburi Lawal, announced this at the inauguration of staff and office accommodation and other projects at the board’s permanent site at Dutse, […]

By Ogbonnaya Akoma From media reports across the country, it has become glaringly obvious that a majority of state governors do wilfully and intentionally fail to pay retirees their merited monthly pensions and retirement gratuities as a result of hatred and sadistic inclinations! It is because these governors hate and dislike pensioners and retirees in […]

National Pension Commission, PenCom, Wednesday, announced President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the payment of outstanding pension liabilities of the Federal Government retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme, especially retirees of Treasury-funded Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.