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Ondo Govt charges public servants on early retirement plans
Ondo State government has charged public servants to draw up their retirement plans early, so as to live stress-free lives after exiting service.
The state Head of Service, Pastor Kayode Ogundele, gave the charge on Wednesday in Akure.
He spoke at a sensitisation and pre-retirement workshop for teachers and civil servants disengaging from the state public service in 2023.
Ogundele said that failure to have adequate plans for life after retirement contributed to indecent living and untimely deaths of retirees.
The head of service said that officers did not have to wait till the end of their service to plan their post-retirement lives.
He said that the Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu-led administration had put several measures in place to ensure timely payment of pensions and gratuities to the state retirees.
“You will recall that one of the major reform initiatives of the present administration is the initialisation of pension administration, aimed at ensuring seamless retirement and gratuity payment processing.
“It is on record that before the present administration, management of retirement and gratuity payment was bedevilled by with poor documentation, manual processing, cumbersome clearance procedure, lack of sound pension policy framework,” he said.
Ogundele listed the initiatives to ease the burden of retirees to include centralisation of retiring officers in the Pension Transitional Department and decentralisation of pension forms into all the 18 local government areas in the state.
He said that digitalisation of pension and gratuity administration and online updating of pensioners records were among others.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the Permanent Secretary of the Ondo State Pension Transitional Department, Mr Dele Akinmoye, explained the rationale for the sensitisation programme.
He said it was based on the need to educate retiring officers on issues they would likely encounter in the processing and payment of their retirement benefits.
Akinmoye urged participants to avail themselves of the opportunity of the programme and put all issues raised to effective use.
Two papers on ‘Ease of Processing Retirement Benefit’ and ‘Managing Your Health in Retirement’ were delivered by Akinmoye and Dr Olufemi Ajayi respectively.
The Central Bank of Nigeria says a notice circulating on social media about the risk of cryptocurrency is fake news.
The Apex disclosed this via its official X account, urging the public to disregard the purported notice for all Deposits Money Bank, Non-Bank Financial Institutions, and other Financial Institutions.
The notice reminded “Institutions that dealing in cryptocurrencies and facilitating payments for cryptocurrency exchanges is prohibited”.
However, CBN said the content doesn’t originate from it.
“This information does not originate from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“For authentic updates, please visit the official website,” CBN wrote.
Recall that the CBN governor, during the Bank’s 293rd Monetary Policy Committee meeting, said over $26 billion funnelled through Binance.
On Tuesday, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, said the anti-graft agency froze about 300 accounts to ensure the safety of the foreign exchange market.
The Nigerian government had continued clamping down on Binance and other cryptocurrency platforms amid efforts to defend the Naira in the foreign exchange market.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said it has deployed personnel to ensure a hitch-free 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Anambra.
The state Commandant, Olatunde Maku, stated this after monitoring the conduct of the exams across CBT centres in Awka, on Wednesday.
Some of the centres visited are, Integral Development Konsult on Enugu/Onitsha Expressway, White House in Awka, JAMB Centre located inside JAMB office in Amawbia and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
Others are St. John of God ICT Hub, Awka and Kachukwu Ventures Staff Development Centre, behind Government House in Awka.
The examination centres take candidates in three batches: 7 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Maku said that the synergy between NSCDC and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had yielded positive results in reducing exam malpractice.
He said that the monitoring of the centres would continue till the end of the examination period, to ensure a seamless conduct of the exercise and promote transparency.
“We are firm in our determination to protect critical national assets and infrastructure including JAMB centres.
“Which was why the NSCDC deployed personnel to JAMB CBT centres in the state to ensure security and so far they have been professional in carrying out their mandate,” he said.
Maku advised candidates writing the 2024 UTME to be law abiding and avoid being in possession of prohibited or incriminating items during the examination.
He warned unauthorised persons against loitering around designated exam centre, adding that anyone found wanting would be arrested and prosecuted.
Also speaking, Mrs Jema Iheme, JAMB Coordinator, Anambra state, commended NSCDC for their support and for ensuring security of candidates and staff at the exam centres.
Iheme said that the swift response of NSCDC to emergencies and enforcement of exam rules and regulations was contributing to a smooth and secured exam process so far.
NAN also reports that about 1.9 million candidates are expected to write the JAMB UTME, which commenced on April 19 and would end on April 29.
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