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Why Uzodinma Must Not Be Returned As Governor Of Imo In 2024

Gov Uzodinma’s Flimsy Excuse For Owing Salaries, Pensions

July 6, 2020 3:44 am

The recent protests carried out in Imo state by aged pensioners demanding their pensions and arrears from the maladministration of Governor Hope Uzodinma have somehow compelled him to come out with claims of alleged fraud in Imo state civil service salary and pension structures to the tune of three hundred and thirty million naira (₦330, 000, 000) lost annually to eight people.

In all sincerity, before going further to explain why Governor Uzodinma’s reason for not paying salaries and pensions, is not just a flimsy one but blatant falsehood, it is important for the readers to understand the fact that …

Governor Uzodinma, Get It Right By Paying Salaries, Pensions

July 2, 2020 3:26 am

Recently, Imo state has been witnessing some peaceful but agonising protests by aged and sickly pensioners who usually come out en masse in front of the Imo State Government House to ask for their arrears.

Four months gone by, and they are yet to receive their pensions from the state government. This ugly cruel treatment is not only being meted to the pensioners but also to many of the civil servants.

In fact, many of them have not been paid any salary ever since Senator Hope Uzodinma took over the leadership of the state as Governor from Honourable Emeka Ihedioha. …

Oshiomhole Didn’t Pay Salaries, Pensions In 18 LGs – SSG

November 19, 2019 2:56 am

Secretary to Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie, has said All Progressives Congress (APC), National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, left behind unpaid salaries of workers in 18 local government areas when he was governor.

Ogie said this during a visit by a team of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College Study Tour Course 42 at Government House, in Benin.

Representing Governor Godwin Obaseki, he said at the time Oshiomhole left office as governor, the 18 councils could also not pay pensions, adding that the reasons the local governments are indebted is due to the collection of taxes by non-state actors, who …

Ihedioha Commences Payment Of Pensions To IBC Retirees

November 13, 2019 3:53 pm

Retirees of the state-owned Media outfit, the Imo state Broadcasting Corporation have cause to smile as the state government has commenced the payment of their 34 months of pension arrears.

It would be recalled that the state government had earlier commenced the payment of the backlog of Pension arrears of retired civil servants in August 2019.

Prince Ugochukwu , Senior Special Adviser on Public Enlightenment to the Imo state governor who disclosed this yesterday said payment of the pension arrears of the retirees of Imo Broadcasting Corporation has commenced as promised by the governor Emeka Ihedioha.

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Trustfund Pensions Canvasses Savings Culture Among Youths

November 3, 2019 3:15 pm

A leading Pension Fund Administrator (PFA), Trustfund Pensions Limited, has expressed the need to inculcate savings culture among the youths, saying that the earlier they are being taught the enormous advantages, the better they appreciate its essence and adopt it as a lifestyle.

The PFA’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mrs. Helen Da-Souza, who spoke in Abuja, weekend at the 2019 prize-giving ceremony of Trustfund Pensions essay competition for Senior Secondary School Students in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, said her organisation believed that there is no age restriction to savings.

“It is our belief that there is no age …

Imo retirees lament non-payment of over 80 months pensions

August 15, 2019 12:40 am

Imo retirees, under the aegis of Nigerian Pensions Union (NPU), yesterday lamented over 80 months pension arrears owed members by the state government.

Secretary of the State Chapter of the NPU, Livinus Ashiegbu, who spoke on behalf of the retirees on an Owerri-based private radio station, Hot FM discussion programme, said that as of last week, data record obtained by them indicated that over 100 of their members had died without receiving several months arrears of their pensions largely owed by the immediate past administration in the state.

According to him, retirees of the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education…

BREAKING: Kano Speaker, Deputy to enjoy Life Pensions

May 7, 2019 11:37 am

The Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed into law the Pensions Rights of Speaker and his Deputy, which will enable the two presiding officers earn life pensions after leaving the office.

Similarly, the speaker and the deputy speaker will enjoy foreign medical trips and brand new vehicles after every four year.

According to the new law, “There shall be paid pension to person who held office as Speaker and Deputy Speaker equal to the emoluments of a serving Speaker and deputy speaker, provided that either the Speaker or the Deputy do not hold any paid elective or elective …