Nike PopoolaThe Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has suspended 24,021 retirees from the payroll of the Federal Government. After it concluded its nationwide verification of federal retirees, PTAD had earlier stated that it added 7,969 civil service pensioners to its payroll to receive monthly pension payments. Before this addition, PTAD said over 19,500 verified civil service pensioners from the North-West, South-East, North-East and South-South had been reinstated and paid their arrears. Also ongoing, it added, is the computation of benefits for over 5,000 verified civil service pensioners. PTAD said this would conclude the “payrolling” of all verified civil service pensioners.

Source: Punch May 27, 2018 00:56 UTC