Retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme across the South-West zone have called for the payment of their pensions and other entitlements immediately after they disengaged from the public service. In separate interviews on Sunday in the zone, the retirees and other stakeholders said such payments would help in mitigating their hardship and also keep them active for more years before death. The Pension Reform Act, 2004 established the National Pension Commission (PenCom) as a body to regulate, supervise and ensure effective administration of pension matters in Nigeria. Its functions include: regulation and supervision of the scheme established under the Act.…
Author: TheStories
Last week, we stated that “a leader creates and nurtures others to be leaders. He must possess a clear vision and focus, know what he wants for his country, and should be courageous enough to follow his dream. Apart from possessing integrity and honesty, a good leader has humility, is fair and just with the capacity for self-sacrifice and perseverance. A leader is one whose national interest subsumes his.” We also saw how the late prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, made his Private Secretary, who became Nigeria’s President in the Second Republic, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, refund to the federal…
The House of Assembly candidate for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Maniru Malami; leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Goronyo local government area of Sokoto state, have joined the All Progressives congress (APC). They were received along with 9,000 other members of the parties by the APC governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto alongside his entourage were in Goronyo. The NNPP candidate defected along with his party chairman, all local government executives and chairmen of the 11 wards of the area. The executives that decamped to the APC include financial secretary of PDP in the local government, Hamza…
Borno state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday, visited Kwaya-Kusar, headquarters of Kwaya-Kusar local government area and laid foundation for the construction of a 48-classroom Higher Islamic College with staff quarters. Zulum visited Kwaya-Kusar from Biu where he had spent three days since Tuesday, commissioning projects. The governor in November 2021 had promised to fulfill the request of the community to build the college in Kwaya-Kusar. The Higher Islamic College, which will integrate Islamic and western education, is to admit students with vast Qur’anic knowledge from traditional Islamiyas to study and earn diplomas, after which they can qualify for admission into…
…PDP has failed in all sectors of developments As the 2023 general election draw closer, 7,000 supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Wurno and Kware local government areas of Sokoto state on Thursaday, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The APC governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto who received 4,270 PDP supporters defectors in Wurno local government, expressed satisfaction over the large number of the PDP supporters that dumped the party for APC, saying, “there is light at the end of the tunnel.” According to him, the mass defection followed failure of the PDP in providing dividends of…
A time-tested saying goes “The reward for hard work is more work.” But over time scholars went further to say “Hard work from more work comes with progress and subtle rewards” Throughout history, awards, accolades and honours have served as motivation to give more in service to the advancement of humanity. The foregoing underscores the Democracy Heroes Africa “Man of the Year 2022 Award” clinched by the Niger state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello. As a man of honour, Governor Sani Bello holds close to his chest, the burden of democracy, which he has overtly demonstrated in words and deeds. That’s…
On Tuesday, Thisday newspaper carried a disturbing headline. Nigeria’s petrol subsidy bill is skyrocketing this year and by the end of December, the total bill would be $9.8 billion. This would exceed the total expenditure by all the states of the federation in 2021. This information is in a new report by a member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane. Meanwhile the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has come out to confess that its revenue has collapsed due to massive crude oil theft.With oil theft…
The ongoing strike action by lecturers in Nigeria has exposed the morbid ignorance in the country regarding the character of universities as research institutions. I am encouraged to wade into this dangerous crisis of enlightenment because ignorance is curable, except for those who are fixated and unwilling to learn. Ayo Banjo once defined a university as a community of scholars dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. This implies that scholarship is the nucleus of university business. The foundation of this order was laid way back in ancient civilizations and has been reinforced over the years.…
Retired Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi has been appointed acting chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), following Wednesday voluntary retirement of Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police. His resignation based on health grounds, has been accepted by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, pursuant to Schedule 2(4) sub-section 2(2) of the Police Service Commission Establishment Act 2001, members of the management of the Commission met on Wednesday and nominated a colleague, Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, as the acting Chairman pending the appointment of a new Chairman…
In efforts to clean up new voter registrations, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has delisted 1,126,359 out of the 2,523,458 voter registrants from its register. This is contained in a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye made available to newsmen on Monday. According to the commission, “several double, multiple and ineligible registrants have also been detected and invalidated.” Read the statement below: As Nigerians are aware, the cleaning up of the register of voters using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) is ongoing since the suspension of the Continuous…