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Hearing the story of the 62—year—old woman who spent 22 years working for the state government, being denied her pension and being intimidated by the auditor general and security personnel. fake or ghost pensioners are a real problem in nigeria. adding fictitious names to the payroll is one way money is stolen from government funds. sometimes there are more fake pensioners than real ones. the state cannot have 3000 pensioners that have 10,000. this man doesnt think the culprits are ordinary ...

Somebody will add names of non—existent pensioners. that one goes to him — the people at the top. its not something at the grassroots. the people at the top. they will pay those ghost pensioners immediately, and the money goes into their pockets. its not something a clerk can do, because it would be discovered. its right up there. so, how can states tackle the problem of ghost pensioners? hello, nice to meet you. kolawole 0luwadare is the deputy director of serap, organisation that advocates...

But even if you dont have advanced technology, it still should not take weeks, months, or years to work out who is alive and who isnt. i am in hockey lead, a community, where last october, this list was published with over 300 names of people declared dead, and as a result, their pension stopped. a result, their pension stopped-— a result, their pension stoned. " ., , stopped. 9996 of the people here are still alive. _ stopped. 9996 of the people here are still alive. a _ stopped. 9996 of the ...

Heads of the residence while they slept. this week about destruction that israel is particularly bringing against palestinians, we are speaking about 50% of those victims massacred by israel being children and women. we are talking about israel targeting clinics where covid—19 services are provided to palestinians who are plagued by the pandemic. israel is doing this and israel is doing this because the uk supports israel because the uk supports israel because america has given israel the gree...

A labour of love from director and co—writer darius marder. sound of metal is boosted by the kind of briliant sound design thats best experience in cinema. its also presenting with open captions ensuring that deaf and hearing audience can watch the film together. something that was of key importance to the filmmakers. new movies opening and cinemas due ranging from peter rabbit 2 to those who wish me dead, which i will review our next week show. and then on wednesday the 19th is a one night on...

Be on the agenda is that for some of these smaller countries who may never get the opportunity to see such a wide and big array of sport, people like the ilc is doing a great job bringing the olympics to countries and smaller countries who benefit from those things. also sport is such a way of looking at health and all the sort of things, so i think on the global agenda it is right to be there and should stay there. shrill is right to be there and should stay there. r is right to be there and sh...

Thursday the eye of the story is moving to a point of crisis for the prime minister or has nowhere new to go. friday something will happen and sunday acts as a fire break for the political news. that tends to be how i think about it. that is a very parochial definition based around my specific thing. thats probably a good way of thinking about the news cycle as really the workflow cycle for story. its beginning, its middle, its end and the publication cycle of whatever your news product is. of c...

They had had enough, and on 3 november 2020, they started a protest.

Prove to the auditor—general, she was alive by going back again and again to calabar. she says six months after her pension stopped she finally got to speak to the auditor—general. but the auditor—general was not about to reinstate her pension. we heard stories like this over and overagain, we heard stories like this over and over again, from all across the state. pension is old, sick and out of money, waiting for the auditor—general. eventually

Of his basic pension. he is entitled to four cars, replaceable every four years. one man. im yemisi adegoke, and i want to find out why politicians are awarding themselves huge pensions while ordinary people are having to fight to get anything at all. every year in nigeria dozens of nurses, teachers and other government workers retire, expecting to court swap their salary for a pension to support them in old age. my mother was a healthcare worker for 27 years and paid into the pension plan. we s...