(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says the new management of the fund is not under probe by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate over alleged N62 billion fraud.
Ms Alexandra Mede, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Mede said that the clarification was necessary to correct the uninformed views in a section of the media.
According to her, what the Senate Public Accounts Committee is currently probing is the cumulative actions and inactions, financial malfeasance and infractions by two past management teams of the agency between 2013 and 2020.
Rework social security code for informal workers
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It needs to be simplified, avoiding multiple authorities and allowing for seamless integration of existing State-run schemes
The Code on Social Security 2020 (SS Code) was passed in Parliament in September 2020 and obtained presidential assent. Thankfully, its implementation has been postponed due to States not issuing notifications. Now, due to the Covid crisis, implementation of all the four new Codes on labour is to be postponed to next year. This is good, since there are many problems with the Codes, especially the SS Code.
The SS Code, once in place, will merge eight existing labour laws including Employees’ Compensation Act 1923, Employees’ State Insurance Act 1948, Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952, Maternity Benefit Act 1961, Payment of Gratuity Act 1972, and Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act 2008.
The Supreme Court of India. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP
The Supreme Court e-committee last week issued a draft Digital Courts Vision and Roadmap, drawn up by a sub-committee of experts consisting of Agami, Daksh and the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. The three NGOs are funded by a mix of Indian philanthropists ranging from the Nilekani Philanthropies to Tata Trusts to Tree of Life Foundation, amongst others.
The vision document in question is meant to deal with Phase III of the e-courts project, which is administered by the Supreme Court’s e-committee and funded largely by Parliament. Since its conception in 2004, the Supreme Court’s e-committee has overseen the expenditure of approximately Rs 1,300 crores of public money on the e-courts project with little to no oversight. In the last 17 years, there has been only one external evaluation of the entire project commissioned by the government – and even that was a hurried job.
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Frequent strikes by medical doctors have become a recurring decimal in Nigeria. This trend is seen as a contributory factor to the weakness of our healthcare system. Most worrisome is that an end to this national quagmire appears not to be in sight. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on yet another indefinite strike. The resident doctors commenced the strike just a few moments after signing an agreement with the Federal Government at the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.
Ngige had invited both parties to a conciliation meeting, following a Notice of Trade Dispute sent to his office by NARD. The heated meeting which lasted for about seven hours, extensively and exhaustively deliberated on all the issues raised by the aggrieved doctors, including the non-payment of salaries of some house officers, non-recruitment of house officers and non-payment of National Minimum
•NMA dismisses minister’s claim, suggests way forward
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has faulted the rejection of a Memorandum of Action by doctors, saying the federal government had substantially met the demands of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) contrary to their allegation.
He also said the federal government had so far spent N13.3 billion on group life insurance for workers in its employ, including doctors and other health workers in 2020.
But the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has described as untrue the view expressed by Ngige that resident doctors were not mandatorily paid by government during their internship or housemanship training elsewhere in the world, even as it suggested the way out of the crisis in the health sector.