The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has included 9,125 ex-workers of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), and its mobile subsidiary, MTEL, to its monthly pension payroll. A statement by management of PTAD in Abuja on Saturday disclosed that the addition of the pensioners to the payroll was coming after 12 years of uncertainty post privatisation of […]
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The former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, AbdulRasheed Maina, says he is ready to reveal top secrets to President Muhammadu Buhari. In an interview with Channels Television, Maina said many of those around the president were insincere. He said while attempts have been made on his life, he is not afraid […]
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The family members of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, say their son is not a fraudster but was invited to bring reforms into the pension scheme. At a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, Aliyu Maina, spokesman of the family, accused a “cabal” of being behind the travails of […]
Continue ReadingThe Kogi State Government has reaffirmed commitment to clear the backlog salaries of all the genuine workers and pensioners in the state by 20 December. The Director General, Research and Development, Kogi State, Mr Moses Okafor, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Wednesday. Moses, who is […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Nelly Mayshak, the suspended Director-General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, and three others, Yoab Youssoufou, Patricia Iyogun, and Ruth Imonikhe for a N2.5bn fraud.PTAD is an independent pension agency established in August 2013 to oversee the management of pensions under the Defined Benefit Scheme for pensioners not […]
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