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Premium Pension pays N118bn benefit to pensioners

Premium Pension Limited, PPL, has said it paid not less than N118billion benefits to pensioners since 2007 when it began operation following the Pension Reforms Act, PRA, 2004, with PPL which commenced business with an initial share capital of N500 million, now has shareholders’...

Federal pensioners in Ogun protest 14 months unpaid benefits

Retired workers who served the Federal Government in Ogun State, have taken to the streets to protest 14 months unpaid pension and gratuities. The Pensioners who stormed Nigeria Union of Journalists Secretariat, Ogun State armed with placards with various inscriptions, appealed to the government to...

Adeosun resolves PenCom, NAICOM rift over N140bn annuity fund

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has brokered a resolution of the dispute between the National Pension Commission and the National Insurance Commission over a circular issued by PenCom directing life insurance companies to transfer their annuity asset holdings to Pension Fund Custodians. The...

PenCom Seeks N10.03bn to Pay Minimum Pension

The National Pension Commission says it needs N10.03bn to commence the funding of the minimum pensions for retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme. It stated that the funding of the Pension Protection Fund would include an annual subvention of one per cent of the total...

Pension Assets Rise to N6.02tn

Despite the impact of recession on the Nigerian economy, the total funds under the Contributory Pension Scheme rose to N6.02tn at the end of November 2016. This was disclosed in the update on the assets under management obtained by our correspondent from the National Pension...

House C’tee Queries PENCOM for N693m Expenditure

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has queried the management of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) over the expenditure of N693 million without proper documentation to back it up. The query was based on the 2012 Report of the Office of...