REVEALED: 7 Nigerian employees to receive N172 million compensation, see list

• Employees sometimes extremity up arsenic victims of work-related accidents that incapacitate them and interaction their quality to marque a living
• To instrumentality attraction of specified unforeseen accidents, the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSIFT) steps successful to help
• Seven Nigerian employees are acceptable to person N172 cardinal from the money arsenic compensation for a work-related accident

Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon, a writer with Legit.ng, has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has announced that it volition beryllium disbursing implicit N172 cardinal arsenic compensation to 7 Nigerian employees from antithetic organisations.

The 7 beneficiaries are nether the Employees' Compensation Scheme (ECS), according to the Managing Director of NSITF, Oluwaseun Faleye.

A connection signed by the NSITF Deputy General Manager and Head of Corporate Affairs Department, Alexandra Mede, revealed that the compensation comes arsenic enactment to assistance the employees cushion the interaction of immoderate unfortunate incidents.

NSITF is liable for providing societal sum and security to Nigerian employees. Photo credit: NSITF
Source: UGC

Faleye said portion speaking astatine the maiden variation of the International Civil Service Conference successful Abuja, that the NSITF had paid N25 cardinal to an worker of the National Assembly for a work-related wounded past week, and different N18.65 cardinal to the household of a deceased worker of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria arsenic decease benefits.

NSITF to contiguous N172 cardinal to 7 Nigerian Employees

The NSITF Boss added that successful the coming weeks, the fund volition disburse a full of N172 cardinal to 7 Nigerian employees.

They include:

• N31.1 cardinal to an worker of Nestle Nigeria Plc;
• N4.9 cardinal to an worker of Polaris Bank Limited;
• N15.4 cardinal to an worker of Medplus;
• N86 cardinal to an worker of Mobil Producing Nigeria;
• N15.6 cardinal to an worker of Zenith Bank Plc;
• N7.8 cardinal to an worker of Alexander Marius Investment Limited;
• N11.7 cardinal to an worker of Unity Bank Plc.

According to The Nation news, the disbursements from NSITF are to service arsenic compensation for work-related accidents and injuries.

NSITF sends a connection to employees

Faleye decried however the mediocre implementation of the Employee Compensation Scheme astatine each levels had prevented galore Nigerians from benefiting from this enactment erstwhile they endure work-related accidents.

He urged employers, particularly the nationalist sector, to instrumentality vantage of the information nett that the strategy provides for employees and their families to beryllium capable to carnivore the fiscal and affectional strain of unforeseen and unfortunate events.

The Federal Executive Council has reviewed the argumentation connected employment generation. Photo credit: Anadolu
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He added that a halfway portion of the NSITF mandate is to enactment worker rehabilitation aft work-related injuries oregon illnesses, and assistance them regain their quality to reintegrate into the workforce.

The NSITF besides plays a proactive relation astatine ensuring safer workplaces for Nigerian employees done regular workplace wellness and information audits and awareness.

Faleye stated:

“The cognition that if you springiness your each to serve, the strategy is disposable to enactment you wherever and whenever challenges occur. This is what volition pb to the rejuvenation of our workforce, this is what volition pb to the translation of our workforce and yet pb to the translation of our lives."

President Tinubu approves caller employment policy

In related news, Legit.ng reported that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a caller national argumentation connected employment generation.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, said the argumentation volition code challenges of unemployment and poverty.

Dingyadi said it volition besides make economical opportunities for the productive employment of Nigerians.

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Source: Legit.ng