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The Imo State panel on payment of pensions of all retirees chaired by Evans Uzokwe, a former Head of Service, submitted its report to Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeagucha. It decried the difficulty its members passed through ...
Read More »Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears And Gratuity; Ortom, Enough Is Enough and Governor Ortom Has Been Out Of Benue State For Three Weeks In USA And Japan, among others. They appealed to President Muhamnadu Buhari to help Benue Pensioners, saying they were dying in silence in their own country. The retirees also urged Governor Ortom to create Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for pensioners in the state, noting that their deaths on daily basis was due to inability to pay their medical bills. Leader of the pensioners, Comrade Peter Ikyado, who lamented that the governor ignored elderly people who have rendered selfless service to their fatherland to die in silence, noted that they have not committed any crime by retiring. Another pensioner said as much as pensioners could not afford to sponsor their children to school in China, Governor Ortom should pay them their pensions and gratuity so they could sponsor their children to attend school in Benue. He also questioned why the Governor found it difficult to pay their pensions and gratuity in spite of the yearly budgetary provision in the state’s budget for them. But in its reaction, Chief Press secretary to the governor, Tever Akase, said Ortom was fully committed to the welfare of senior citizens and appealed to the pensioners to trust the assurances the governor gave them through the Deputy Governor and Head of Service recently. However, at the time of filing this report, some of the pensioners confirmed that they have started receiving an alert for one-month arrear.
Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears ...
Read More »Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has said since President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, he should resign honourably, insisting that that they would treat him as true statesman if he did so. This followed escalating insecurity, herdsmen killings and attack on the residence of Chairman of the Southeast Governor’s Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi Speaking with Journalists in Abakaliki, Youth Leader of the party in Ebonyi Elder Sam Over, also condemned the raid on the Abuja residence of Governor Umahi by policemen in the nation’s capital saying, Nigerians were no longer safe. Sam urged the police to disclose reason for the invasion of Umahi’s residence to avail Nigerians the motive behind the raid.
Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has said since President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, he should resign honourably, insisting that they would treat him as true statesman ...
Read More »Youths protest against bandits’ attacks, set Katsina SGG’s house, APC’s offices ablaze
Irate youths, who were protesting against incessant attacks by bandits on their community, have set the house of Secretary to the Katsina State Government (SSG), Mustapha Inuwa in Danmusa Council Area of the state on fire. They also set ablaze ...
Read More »FG moves to monitor development partners aids for effectiveness
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Ikanade Agba, has underscored the need for coordination of the activities of development partners in Nigeria, saying: “It will now be compulsory in order to achieve aid effectiveness and efficiency.” The ...
Read More »Nasir Sambo seeks review of NHIS Act for better coverage
Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Mohammed Nasir Sambo, has sought the amendment of the scheme’s enabling law for better coverage for all beneficiaries. He said the organisation was entrenching values and result-driven processes in its ...
Read More »81 per cent of Nigerians evade tax, says NESG
Over 81 per cent of taxable adults and businesses in Nigeria do not pay their income taxes, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has disclosed. The revelation was contained in a presentation to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) by the ...
Read More »President Buhari tasks engineers on nation’s infrastructure deficit
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought more creative and innovative ideas from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) to reverse the infrastructure deficit in the country, saying, “Nigerian problems require uniquely Nigerian solutions.” Buhari, who received a delegation led by President, ...
Read More »Idada, Olatunde, Begho make final literature prize, Wang, Aneke win $100,000 science award
The advisory board has unveiled Jude Idada’s Boom Boom, Dunni Olatunde’s Mystery at Ebenezer Lodge and O.T. Begho’s The Great Walls of Benin as finalists for the 2019 The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth $100,000, and sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). The prize ...
Read More »Akpabio decries NDDC’s N2 trillion debt, stops payment of contractors as Keyamo cautions against slothfulness
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has decried the over N2 trillion debt profile of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). During a meeting yesterday with the management of the interventionist agency in Abuja, the minister accused the commission ...
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