ADVERTISEMENT
The Sun Nigeria
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
No Result
View All Result
The Sun Nigeria
No Result
View All Result
Home National

Borno Govt. pays N12bn pension arrears to 3,000 retirees

8th December 2020
in National
0
Borno Govt. pays N12bn pension arrears to 3,000 retirees
0
SHARES
62
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Borno Government on Tuesday commenced payment of N12 billion outstanding pension arrears of 3,000 retired civil servants in the state.

Gov. Babagana Zulum disclosed this on Tuesday while presenting the cheques to the pensioners at the Government House, Maiduguri.

He said the amount was part of the backlog of arrears inherited from the previous administrations from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 would be fully paid.

He said the payment was facilitated through a loan of N12 billion from Zenith Bank of Nigeria and commended the State House of Assembly for the approval of the loan request.

“At the inception of this administration from May 29 2019, the total of backlog of the state gratuities liability was about N19.7 billion.

“Consequently, government had so far paid gratuities to the sum of about N2 billion, making the outstanding of the unpaid gratuities to about N17 billion.

 

“In the same vain, the outstanding gratuities and local government pensioners as at May 29, 2020 stood at about N12.4 billion.

 

“So far, about N600 million has been released recently to kick start the payment of LGA staff, bringing the backlog to about N5billion,’’ he said.

 

He said N5 billion was also paid in salary arrears and to those unable to be captured under the state government’s biometric verification exercise in the last one year.

 

“The accumulated and backlog of gratuities over the years has become worrisome, but government was making frantic efforts to settle the backlog of pension and arrears to our retired civil servants.

 

“This singular act of paying gratuities to the retirees in the state and local government pensioners will go a long way in reducing their sufferings.

 

“It will also reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth in the state,’’ he said.

 

The governor said that the gesture was in fulfillment of one of the policies of his administration which was the provision of “Good Governance” to the people of the state.

 

“One of our ten-pact agenda under good governance was payment of all salaries, pensions and gratuities to the civil servant as at when due.

 

“We shall therefore do everything possible to settle all the outstanding gratuities,” he said.

 

He expressed concern over the backlog of outstanding gratuities accumulated by the previous administrations from 2017 to2019, which he said was about N30 billion.

 

“We are owing the state civil servants about N17 billion, the local government education authority alone is being owned about N6 billion, while the LGA staff were being owed N4billion.

 

“This is worrisome, civil servants, who retired from 2012, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, having worked for 35 years cannot get their payments.

 

“Accordingly, government has commenced the migration of 900 retirees into a harmonised system where they can access their benefits three months after retirement.

 

“This initiative will indeed bring relief to the retirees,” he said.

 

Reacting, Abubakar Maina, a retiree who received a cheque of N12 million commended the governor for paying his benefit.

 

“It was a thing of joy to me and my family. I retired since 2012, but I was not paid my arrears.

 

“I want to thank Almighty God and thank the governor for making this possible.

 

Umar Usman, another pensioner who expressed the same feeling, thanked the governor for giving priority to the plight of pensioners.

 

Usman said the action of the governor had redeemed the hope of the civil servants in the state. (NAN)

Click Here>>>>>>7 Natural Herbs to Finally End Premature Ejaculation and Weak Erection<<<<<<

Click Here>>>>>>Anti-kidnap and anti-theft device for tracking and listening<<<<<<

Tags: arrears 3000BornoGovtN12bnpayspensionretirees
Cyril

Cyril

Related Posts

An Akure, Ondo State-based Christian cleric, Adewale Giwa, has expressed disappointment over Governor Rotimi Akeredolu's failure to evict Fulani herdsmen from Ondo state as earlier promised.
National

Quit order: I never knew Akeredolu was making an empty threat – Pastor Giwa

26th January 2021
OSOM games: NSCDC to prioritize sports development
National

OSOM games: NSCDC to prioritize sports development

26th January 2021
NIN issued in Kwara before 2012 invalid – NIMC
National

NIN issued in Kwara before 2012 invalid – NIMC

26th January 2021
Next Post
Food security: Experts discuss state, future of precision agric in Ibadan

Food security: Experts discuss state, future of precision agric in Ibadan

Burundi welcomes its removal from UN Security Council’s agenda

Burundi welcomes its removal from UN Security Council’s agenda

2020: NiMet warns disaster managers to prepare for excess rainfall events

NiMet predicts sunny, hazy conditions Wednesday to Friday

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Highlights

North won’t allow APC enemies hijack party’s membership registration – Dabang

South-East shortchanged in police promotion, says Intersociety

Zimbabwe sees new record high daily COVID-19 deaths

Blast heard in Saudi capital Riyadh: correspondent

You are a liar, Sunday Igboho blasts Ojudu

Suspected mastermind of deadly Zangon Kataf attack nabbed

Trending

An Akure, Ondo State-based Christian cleric, Adewale Giwa, has expressed disappointment over Governor Rotimi Akeredolu's failure to evict Fulani herdsmen from Ondo state as earlier promised.
National

Quit order: I never knew Akeredolu was making an empty threat – Pastor Giwa

26th January 2021
0

From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure An Akure, Ondo State-based Christian cleric, Adewale Giwa, has expressed disappointment over Governor...

OSOM games: NSCDC to prioritize sports development

OSOM games: NSCDC to prioritize sports development

26th January 2021
NIN issued in Kwara before 2012 invalid – NIMC

NIN issued in Kwara before 2012 invalid – NIMC

26th January 2021
North won't allow APC enemies hijack party's membership registration - Dabang

North won’t allow APC enemies hijack party’s membership registration – Dabang

26th January 2021
South-East shortchanged in police promotion, says Intersociety

South-East shortchanged in police promotion, says Intersociety

26th January 2021
ADVERTISEMENT

Follow us on social media:

Categories

  • Abuja Metro
  • Arts
  • Broken Tongues
  • Business
  • Business Week
  • Cartoons
  • Citizen Joe
  • Columns
  • Cover
  • Culture
  • Duro Onabule
  • Editorial
  • Education Review
  • Effect
  • Elections
  • Entertainment
  • Events
  • Features
  • Femi Adesina
  • Food & Drinks
  • Frank Talk
  • Funke Egbemode
  • Gallery
  • Global Square by Kenneth Okonkwo
  • Health
  • Insights
  • Kalu Leadership Series
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Letters
  • Lifeline
  • Lifestyle
  • Literary Review
  • Marketing Matters
  • Muiz Banire
  • National
  • News
  • Offside Musings
  • Opinion
  • oriental news
  • Politics
  • Press Release
  • PressClips
  • Public Sphere
  • Ralph Egbu
  • Shola Oshunkeye
  • Sideview
  • South-west Magazine
  • Sponsored Post
  • Sporting Sun
  • Sports
  • Sun Girl
  • Tea Time
  • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
  • The Sun Awards Live
  • The Sun TV
  • Thoughts & Talks
  • Time Out
  • Today's cover
  • Tola Adeniyi
  • Travel
  • Travel & Tourism
  • Trending
  • TSWeekend
  • Turf Game
  • Uncategorized
  • Updates
  • Views from Abroad
  • Voices
  • World
  • World News
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Paper Ad Rate
  • Online Ad Rate
  • The Team
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist