Pensions and gratuity; 21 states owe N790bn – Opinion Nigeria

However, as of May this year, the backlog of unpaid gratuities was about a billion But last year, the state chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, who is now the deputy governor, Yakubu Garba, declared at the Nigeria Union of Teachers state executive meeting that the state government was owing pensioners in the state a whopping N50 billion and vowed to fight through “constitutional means” for the payment to be effected.

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