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Pension Poverty: From Salary to Retirement, How Lagos Can Strengthen Its Pension System — Onifade Damilola Elijah

Pension Poverty: From Salary to Retirement, How Lagos Can Strengthen Its Pension System — Onifade Damilola Elijah

Across Lagos, many retirees are raising concerns that monthly pensions of between ₦30,000 and ₦50,000 are no longer enough to keep up with rising food, rent and medical costs. To examine the factors that can…

FCMB Supports 1,000 NYSC Members With Skills for Employment and Career Growth

FCMB Supports 1,000 NYSC Members With Skills for Employment and Career Growth

First City Monument Bank has thrown its weight behind an employment and entrepreneurship push for corps members, as 1,000 NYSC members gathered in Lagos for the 2026 edition of The Peak Performer Emerging Leaders’ Summit.…

1,321 WEMPCO Jobs at Risk as Workers Seek FG Intervention

More than 1,300 employees of Western Metal Products Company Limited, WEMPCO, say their livelihoods are under threat following the appointment of a court receiver over 14 companies in the group. The workers, through the Steel…

LASUTH Resident Doctors Issue 7-Day Ultimatum to Sanwo-Olu Over Allowance, Salary Arrears

LASUTH Resident Doctors Issue 7-Day Ultimatum to Sanwo-Olu Over Allowance, Salary Arrears

Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, are threatening fresh unrest if the state government fails to pay outstanding allowances and salary arrears within seven days. The Association of Resident Doctors, LASUTH chapter,…

Kano Raises Minimum Pension From ₦5,000 to ₦20,000, Improving Pensioners’ Welfare

Kano Raises Minimum Pension From ₦5,000 to ₦20,000, Improving Pensioners’ Welfare

The Kano State Government has increased the minimum pension in the state from ₦5,000 to ₦20,000, the state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Malam Shuaib Musa-Jibrin, has disclosed. Musa-Jibrin disclosed this in…

NSITF Calls for Legal Reforms to Protect Gig, Informal Workers

NSITF Calls for Legal Reforms to Protect Gig, Informal Workers

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to champion legal reforms that will extend workplace protection and social security coverage to informal and gig economy workers. The…

Plateau University ASUU Declares Indefinite Strike Over 2025 Agreement, Wage Arrears

Plateau University ASUU Declares Indefinite Strike Over 2025 Agreement, Wage Arrears

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Plateau University chapter, has declared an indefinite strike over unresolved demands, including the implementation of the 2025 agreement with the Federal Government, pension scheme for members and payment…

FG Launches First 37 of 100 Electric Buses to Cut Civil Servants’ Transport Costs

FG Launches First 37 of 100 Electric Buses to Cut Civil Servants’ Transport Costs

Federal civil servants will now spend less on transport and get to work faster, as the Federal Government on Wednesday launched the first batch of electric buses under the Renewed Hope Mass Transit Programme at…

LAPO Workers Petition Labour Ministry Over Mandatory Saturday, Holiday Work Without Extra Pay

LAPO Workers Petition Labour Ministry Over Mandatory Saturday, Holiday Work Without Extra Pay

LAPO Microfinance Bank workers are pushing back against what they describe as “compulsory weekend and public holiday work” with no extra pay or rest days to make up for it. In a petition submitted to…

Tinubu Hails Walson-Jack’s Role in Repositioning Civil Service as She Retires After 34 Years of Public Service

Tinubu Hails Walson-Jack’s Role in Repositioning Civil Service as She Retires After 34 Years of Public Service

President Bola Tinubu has commended the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, for her contributions to reforming and repositioning the Federal Civil Service as she retires after 34 years…

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