{"id":72339,"date":"2025-08-06T20:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72339"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:37:57","slug":"tinubu-orders-free-healthcare-for-low-income-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/tinubu-orders-free-healthcare-for-low-income-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Orders Free Healthcare for Low-Income Retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate launch of a free healthcare programme for low-income retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, announced by presidential aide Bayo Onanuga, forms part of the administration\u2019s broader social protection agenda to uphold the dignity of pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s directive followed a briefing from the Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Omolola Oloworaran.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu also called for the prompt implementation of pending pension increases and a minimum pension guarantee to shield vulnerable retirees from hardship.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing long-standing concerns, he ordered PenCom to urgently resolve the unresolved police pension issue, emphasizing that officers who have dedicated their lives to national service must be able to retire in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the President approved new pension reforms aimed at safeguarding pension funds from inflation and enabling Nigerians in the diaspora to contribute to the scheme using foreign currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate launch of a free healthcare programme for low-income retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme. The initiative, announced by presidential aide Bayo Onanuga, forms part of the administration\u2019s broader social protection agenda to uphold the dignity of pensioners. The President\u2019s directive followed a briefing from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72339","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72341,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72339\/revisions\/72341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}