By Afolabi Oyekunle. In its desire to ensure prompt payment of accrued rights of employees and capture their data, Pencom is deploying on-line capturing for all active employees of treasury-funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who were employed before 30 June 2004. The exercise which commenced on 2nd February 2026 and ends on 31 July 2026, is aimed at capturing accurate and complete data on eligible workers. This will support the timely payment of their accrued pension rights under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS. According to Pencom, the Federal Government has intensified efforts to improve participation in the ongoing mandatory verification and enrolment exercise for civil servants with accrued pension rights, following low turnout despite the importance of the exercise. "Towards this, the National Pension Commission (PenCom) is conducting a one-ti...
By Afolabi Oyekunle. As Workers celebrate May Day today, the leadership of the union under the National President, Comrade Shehu Mohammed and the Secretary General, Comrade Joshua Apebo have vowed their commitment to be focus and continue to pursue the welfare of members in the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) at the Federal and 36 States Public Services. This is contained in the May Day message of the Union. According to the leaders, they have since assuming office on 12th August 2024 at the 5 th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the Association held at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, convinced the Federal Government to: Restore payment of gratuity to public service employees with effect from January 2026. Payment of gratuity which was stopped since 2004 when the Pension Reforms Act was introduced even though that law did not expressly abolish gratuity. .Agree to pay arrears of Wage Awards to Public Service Employers in the Federal...