Adamawa govt reviews pension, sets new minimum at N50,000

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has announced a caller minimum monthly pension of N50,000 for retired civilian servants.

This represents a important summation from the N4,000 received by the least-paid pensioners successful the authorities for decades, a concern pensioners person agelong protested against.

The politician announced the summation on Friday during a unrecorded quality connected the Hausa programme, Taba Kidi Taba Karatu, connected Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, Yola, wherever helium described the erstwhile minimum pension arsenic an injustice that his medication had decided to address.

He said the accommodation reflects his administration’s appreciation of the years pensioners spent successful service, adding that the motion aligns with ongoing efforts to amended the surviving conditions of some serving and retired workers.

The authorities president of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Mohammed Sali, could not beryllium reached for remark by the clip of filing this study on Friday evening.

However, astir a period ago, helium recalled that N4,000 had been the monthly earning of the least-paid pensioners successful the authorities for much t...