A former NLC chairman\u00a0 in Kwara, Mr Emmanuel Aiyeoribe, has appealed to the Federal Government to pay attention to the plight of pensioners in the country.<\/p>\n
Aiyeoribe, who was reacting to the recent nationwide picketing of NIPOST offices, told\u00a0 newsmen that government must give priority to the welfare of pensioners in the three tiers of government..<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is regrettable and worrisome that our senior citizens are treated as if they did not contribute to the economy of the country while in active service.<\/p>\n
For the pensioners to picket all NIPOST offices nationwide shows that they had been pushed to the wall,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal Government should as a matter of urgency in 2013 find a permanent solution to the plight of pensioners at the federal, state and local government levels.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cPensioners of the three tiers of government face the same plight as evident in the demonstrations witnessed in states and local government areas of the country,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He appealed to government to give priority to workers\u2019 welfare this year, saying this would boost productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former NLC chairman\u00a0 in Kwara, Mr Emmanuel Aiyeoribe, has appealed to the Federal Government to pay attention to the plight of pensioners in the country. Aiyeoribe, who was reacting to the recent nationwide picketing of NIPOST offices, told\u00a0 newsmen that government must give priority to the welfare of pensioners in the three tiers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}