Ghana: Pension funds seen boosting GSE activities
Financial analysts have tipped the stock market to continue its strong recovery on the back of an expected increase in activity on the pension funds market. Benjamin Amoah-Adjei, a financial research...
View ArticleKaduna Govt Commences Implementation of New Pension Scheme
The Kaduna State Government is to commence the implementation of the new pension scheme on Tuesday by paying pension benefits to its retirees scheme. The Executive Secretary of the tate Pension Bureau,...
View ArticleLagos State retirees get N801m as payment for accured right
Mrs Folasade Onanuga The Lagos State government has paid 179 retirees a total of N801 as accrued Pension rights for the month of February, 2017 According to statement released by Mrs Ajoke Lawal of...
View ArticleAdeosun resolves NAICOM, PenCom dispute over custody of annuity assets
Kemi Adeosun The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday brokered peace between the National Pension Commission (PenCom) and the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) over who...
View ArticleNPA retirees stage protest over unpaid pension arrear
Headquarters of the organisation over what they called non-payment of their enhanced pension benefits. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters had converged on the towering office...
View ArticlePhoto News: Premium Pension sensitization forum
The Chief Marketing Officer, Premium Pension Limited, Mr. Kabir Ahmed Tijjani addressing Pension Desk Officers and Human Resources Managers in Lagos recently during a sensitization forum on recent...
View ArticlePenCom, NAICOM directs life insurers to open operational accounts with PFCs
Following the intevention of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, to broker peace between the National Pension Commission (PenCom) and National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) over who takes the...
View ArticlePension scheme not microfinance investment – informal sector workers told
Some participants have also raised some concerns about implemention of the scheme The National Pensions Regulatory Authority has explained to the informal sector workers that pensions scheme is...
View ArticleEnact Policies To Attract Africa’s Pension Funds To Invest In Continent’s...
Mayaki Africa must commit to a roadmap that will allow African Pension Funds to invest in Africa’s own infrastructure projects, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the Nepad Planning...
View ArticleNigeria pension office sacks five deputy directors for alleged employment fraud
Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, Barr. Sharon Ikeazor [Photo: icpc.gov.ng] Bassey Udo Five deputy directors of the Pensions Transitional Arrangement...
View ArticleSenate urges FG to Release N174bn bailout funds for pension arrears
Some retirees The Senate on Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order the immediate release of N174 billion voted in the 2016 budget for payment of pension arrears. The upper chamber said...
View ArticleLagos pays N582.195million Pension Rights
R-L: Director- General – LASPEC, Mrs. Folashade Onanuga presenting one of the retirees her Bond Certificate at the 37th Retirement Benefit Bond Certificate Presentation Ceremony held at the Office...
View ArticleInspen retirement mata debuts on Naija FM
Inspen Media has launched a pidgin programme on radio, which is aimed at deepening pension awareness. A statement by its Chief Executive Officer, Chuks Udo Okonta, said the programme tagged:...
View ArticleStanbic IBTC highlights role of employers in pension scheme
Nigeria’s largest pension fund administrator (PFA), Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited, has described as fundamental the role of employers in Nigeria’s nascent Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), a...
View ArticleCPS: FG clears N54bn accrued pension benefit backlog
Federal Government on Wednesday said it has cleared the inherited arrears of accrued pension benefit for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 by releasing N41.5 billion to the National Pension...
View ArticleFG Sets Up Committee To Reconcile, Clear Pension Arrears
Bbbb mes Emejo in Abuja The Minister of Budget and Planning , Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, thursday said the federal government would constitute a special committee to reconcile conflicting figures on...
View ArticleFinance Minister, Kemi Adeosun: heads committee on pension liability
Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a committee, headed by Kemi Adeosun, the Finance minister, to estimate the pension liability of the Federal Government. Budget...
View ArticleGhana: NPRA introduces incentives to attract more pension funds
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has initiated measures to encourage high participation of Corporate Trustees to maximize the coverage of persons in the informal sector. The incentives...
View Article7.49m Nigerians Are Registered Under the National Pension Scheme As At Q1...
The retirement savings account (RSA) membership distribution data for Q1 2017 reflected that 7,493,590 workers are registered under the pension scheme compared to 7,348,028 registered workers in Q4...
View ArticleFG Set To Recover Pension Paid To Ghost Workers- Says Adeosun
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has said that the National Pension Commission (PenCom) is set to recover the pensions so far paid into the Retirement Savings Accounts of ghost workers....
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