By Ibru Nejuvie LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State who first courageously mooted the idea of scrapping the obnoxious and homogous pensions for Ex-Governors and their deputies in Lagos State.Apparently, his courage and convictions was put to test after external forces began to pressure him to forgo that line of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, jailed for five decades for war crimes, has filed a lawsuit against his country’s government over its “refusal” to pay his pension and retirement benefits, according to a court statement. Taylor sparked a 13-year civil war in Liberia when he led a rebellion in 1989 to oust…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has proposed to abolish the controversial pension and entitlements law of 2007 that approved payments of pensions and other ridiculous entitlements to former governors and deputy governors of the state. Sanwo-Olu made his intentions public when he presented the N1.154 trillion 2021 budget estimates to…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has revealed that he was touched to pay off an accumulated pension and gratuity debt of N35 billion, which he inherited from the previous administration, because of the sufferings of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara state house of assembly has abolished the law that allows former governors, their deputies, speakers and their deputies to get jumbo pension and other allowances. The development comes one day after a letter Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor wrote to Bello Matawalle, lamenting the non-payment of his monthly N10 million upkeep…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH, (NEWSRANGERS)-In a shocking case from Kolkata, a 43-year-old man was arrested for reportedly keeping the corpse of his dead mother in a deep freezer for almost three years to collect her pension every month using her thumb impression. The incident came to light after the mutilated body of the woman was found…