{"id":19175,"date":"2024-02-09T12:36:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:36:35","slug":"nigerian-pensioners-face-dire-monthly-payments-some-as-low-as-n450-nup-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/09\/nigerian-pensioners-face-dire-monthly-payments-some-as-low-as-n450-nup-raises-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Pensioners Face Dire Monthly Payments, Some as Low as N450, NUP Raises Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-ijybm-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-ijybm-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-543\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"f6ef7e7d-5331-4a7d-8c31-41385e0d484f\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) has highlighted the distressing plight of retirees in certain states, where monthly pension payments are as meager as N450, N500, and N1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The NUP President, Mr. Godwin Abumisi, emphasized the severe hardships faced by pensioners, particularly in the Southeast, due to economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Abumisi revealed specific examples of extremely low pension amounts received in states like Borno, Gombe, and Jigawa, attributing the nationwide disparity to a lack of pension harmonization. He criticized state governments for failing to implement reviewed minimum wage, resulting in no corresponding pension increases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) has highlighted the distressing plight of retirees in certain states, where monthly pension payments are as meager as N450, N500, and N1,000. The NUP President, Mr. Godwin Abumisi, emphasized the severe hardships faced by pensioners, particularly in the Southeast, due to economic challenges. Abumisi revealed specific examples of extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-19175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}