Widow of 9/11 firefighter wins $3M pension payout
Jackie Kaht Fernandez spent nine years fighting the Fire Department’s pension board and its doctors to prove that the sudden death of her husband, Lt. Cruz Fernandez, in 2006 at age 52 was related to...
View ArticlePenCom loses Commissioner, Finance Division
Late Prince Adesoji Olaoba-Efuntayo The National Pension Commission (PenCom) on Thursday announced the death of its Commissioner, Finance Division, Prince Adesoji Olaoba-Efuntayo. The commission...
View ArticleStanbic IBTC Pension to hold retirement forum
Stanbic IBTC Pension Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited is set to continue its nationwide campaign to raise awareness about retirement planning, its Chief Executive, Eric Fajemisin has said. He...
View ArticleGhana: SSNIT moves to speed up processing of benefits
SSNIT Logo The acting Corporate Affairs Manager of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mrs Victoria Gifty Abaidoo, has stated that the company has rolled up an automation system...
View ArticleGhana: Stanbic bank supports the aged in Somanya
Staff of Stanbic making the presentation About 210 elderly people at Somanya in the Eastern Region have benefitted from free health screening organised by Stanbic Bank, in collaboration with Onua...
View ArticleRedeeming States and Local govt Workers from old age Poverty
Nothing so far exposes the greed, avarice and self-centredness of our ruling political class as the pension rights of States and Local Government employees. Some of the immediate past Governors who...
View ArticleWinners emerges at Premium Pension Social Media Campaign/Competition
L-R: Executive Director Business Development. & Investment, Premium Pension Limited, Mr. Kayode Akande, Miss Kofoworola George-Taylor, Mr.Ogbonna Kingsley, MD/CEO, Mr. Wilson Ideva, Mr. Idris...
View ArticleGhana: Nine firms take over tier two pension schemes
Pension Government has inaugurated nine registered schemes to administer the tier two pension contributions of public sector workers. The inauguration follows almost two years of negotiations between...
View ArticleNigerian Pension Funds Record Modest Gains in Q1
Pension Funds Analysis by Quantitative Financial Analytics shows that Nigerian pension fund managers posted modest return of between 0.29% and 2.95% for RSA funds and between 1.58% and 3.46% for...
View ArticleNigerian Pension Funds Record Modest Gains in Q1
Pension Funds Analysis by Quantitative Financial Analytics shows that Nigerian pension fund managers posted modest return of between 0.29% and 2.95% for RSA funds and between 1.58% and 3.46% for...
View ArticleHow Kaduna pension consultant collected N66.5m as pensioner – Witness
Pension fraud A witness in the ongoing trial former Kaduna State Pension Bureau consultant, Ibrahim Mohammed Sodangi, today presented startling evidence on how the consultant smuggled his name into...
View ArticleThe Liquidity Squeeze and the Traction of Pension Funds
Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, PenCom DG Great economies are usually those that among other things have relatively high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and solid financial cushion or at least inhere the...
View ArticleLagos pays N1, 080b Accrued Pension Rights
Mrs Folasade Onanuga, DG LASPEC The Lagos State government has issued Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates for a total sum of N1, 080 billion to 260 retirees from the Mainstream, Local...
View ArticleGovt Not Utilising N1 Trillion Pension Fund for Infrastructure – PenCom
Pension Fund The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has disclosed that despite the availability of about N1.06 trillion for infrastructure financing, only N1.36 billion has been taken as at...
View ArticleInsurance, Pension stakeholders to brainstorm on ways to ending old age...
BusinessToday Logo *Set to honour LASPEC DG, Mrs Folasade Onanug, Eight others The Director General of National Pension Commission ( PenCom), will be among top Pension and Insurance top dignitaries...
View ArticleUnpaid Pension: Edo pensioners protest over 42 months’ pension arrears
Pensioners Retired pensioners numbering over 500 from the public service of the Edo State government protested on Monday round major roads in Benin City over 42 months pension arrears. The citizens...
View ArticlePremium Pension wins BusinessToday Online Pension Company of the Year 2015
R-L: Head, Corporate Communication Premim Pension Limited, Paddy Ezeala receiving the prestigious 3rd edition if “BusinessToday Online Pension Company of the Year on behalf of Premium Pension Limited...
View ArticleLabour Minister pledges to uphold pension review every five years
Dr. Chris Ngige The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige says the Federal Government will comply fully with section 173(3) of the constitution that makes review of pension compulsory...
View ArticleLagos pays N1.002bn to 275 retirees
Mrs Folasade Onanuga, DG, LASPEC The Lagos State government has issued Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates to the tune of N1.002, 856 billion to another set of 275 retirees from the Mainstream,...
View ArticlePenCom boss tasks pension fund operators on product diversification
Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, Director-General, National Pension Commission,(PenCom) has charged operators of pension fund to derive ways of developing products that they invested...
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