By News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The National Industrial Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared as lacking in merit, a suit filed by a former Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Mr. Larry Okori-Odey, seeking pension for his tenure as Acting Governor. In the virtual judgment, Justice Sanusi Kado held that the
By BBC News Africa BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to expose an ineffective and corrupt pension system in Nigeria, which leaves some elderly people sick and penniless, yet grants some politicians inflated retirement packages. Reporter Yemisi Adegoke travels to Cross River State to meet ‘Ghost Pensioners’ elderly people whom the State declared dead and deprived
By Tope Templer Olaiya, News Editor – Guardian Newspaper Today, workers across the country will observe a public holiday to mark this year’s International Workers’ Day, but across the country, only a negligible few, in spite of the avalanche of goodwill messages and promises made on Labour Day, are looking forward to a promising future. This
By Archibong Jeremiah Some retired Police Officers have protested poor renumeration after service, raised alarm of corruption in the pension and housing scheme. The aggreaved retirees didn’t just protest, but threatened to move out of the pension scheme they called fraudulent, did so this morning (Wednesday) at the Cross River State Police Command Headquarters, Daimond
By Maxwell Effiong The Association of Cross River State Local Government Pensioners, ACRSLGP, has accused the State Government of insensitivity towards pensioners’ plight. Mr. Peter Ozar, Secretary of the Pensioners union, made this known to CrossRiverWatch in an interview where he revealed that the union lost seven members during the 2019 verification exercise and is
While five States are regularly funding the Accrued Rights and Retirement Savings Accounts of their workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, all the States have backlog of arrears that make retirees to wait for a few years after retirement before they get paid, Nike Popoola, Punch Newspaper reports. All State Governments’ retirees in the country suffer
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The seniors, including Permanent Secretaries and Directors, said arrangements had been concluded to drag the State Government and the Accountant General to National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NIC) in Calabar for allegedly refusing to pay them their gratuities since 2014, worsening their health condition. Some retirees have not been paid since 2014,
By Kelvin Ololo and Patrick Obia The Cross River State Government has denied claims that is is owing retirees who worked in the State system pensions. The finance commissioner, Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr. told CrossRiverWatch in an exclusive interview recently that the State is only owing gratuities which it plans to pay soon. Mr. Ekpenyong said