Nigeria: Changing Fortunes of Kaduna Pensioners

2 October 2014
opinion

For nearly a decade, pensioners in Kaduna State have subsisted in penury because their entitlements were being owed them. John Shiklam writes that with the recent payment by the government, they can smile again

Their faces were gleaming with bright smiles over the good news from the state government. Many of them were looking hungry, haggard and poorly dressed while others were still looked their best. The story of retired civil servants across the states of the federation is a familiar one. Non - payment of entitlements or delay in the payment of their pension and gratuities had been their lot.

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