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Repositioning of NSITF begins as management tours branches
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Photo caption: From Left: NSITF GM Claims, Nkiru Ogunnaike, DGM HSE, Ijeoma Okeke, GM Compliance, Arc. Kabir Maa’ji, GM Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang &Executive Director, Operations NSITF, Hon. Mrs. Ali-Macaulay, GM, Informal Sector, Chika Onyewuchi &GM Social Security, Tony Eke during the tour of Abuja Region of the Fund, Tuesday.
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF) has said its new management has hit the ground running to re-position the agency in line with the directive of President BolaTinubu.
The new Executive Director, Operations of the tripartite agency, Hon. Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay stated this Tuesday while on a working visit to the FCT and Mararaba Branches in the Abuja Region of the Fund.
She said, “ this administration led by a deeply knowledgeable lawyer with excellent pedigree in corporate finance, Oluwaseun Falaye was painstakingly selected by the President to inject new blood into the NSITF, knowing the core place it occupies in promoting a healthy national workforce.
“The NSITF is an agency that has workplace safety as its primary obligation, and holds in trust, contributions from public and private employers. From these contributions, employees who suffer injuries, disability or disease in the course of work are compensated. Also their dependents are compensated when the employee dies in the course of work.
“ We have saddled ourselves with the onerous task of making sure that this is fully achieved by unleashing the potentials of the Fund in stakeholder advocacy to get more employers of labour in all sectors to enroll and then expand the percentage of the utilization of these funds for the intended worker-beneficiaries.
“ In spite of this core mandate however, the welfare of our workers who in the 57 branches and 12 regions across the country who brace the odds to ensure the Employees’ Compensation Scheme is implemented is dear to our hearts. And that is the essence of this working tours, aimed at arming us with firsthand knowledge of what the goings on are in our frontiers.
“I bring you good tidings from the Managing Director/CE and the Executive Management that henceforth, the welfare of the staff of the NSITF is placed at the frontline. Where the Managing Director/CE and my humble self have hitherto worked in Lagos, we touched lives and I know this assignment in Abuja will not be different. We shall leave the NSITF a far more better place.
“ For me particularly, I personally want to prove a point that those incorrect narratives do not define me. I’m moving forward for people to see who I am with this assignment. The weight is also lying on my shoulders.”
A statement signed by Nwachukwu Godson , General Manager Corporate Affairs and sent to Nationwide Reports, quotes Ali-Macauley to have said further that the leadership will tackle the provision of appropriate working tools to clear all obstacles to optimal delivery of assigned tasks, urging all staff to remain loyal and support the ongoing efforts to reposition the NSITF.
Hon. Mrs. Macaulay was accompanied on the visit by the General Manager Compliance, Arc. Kabir Ma’aji, General Manager, Claims and Compensation, Barr. Nkiru Ogunnaike General Manager, Social Security, Tony Eke, General Manger, Informal Sector, Chika Onyewuchi, and General Manger, Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang among others.
The legal team of suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, say they are ready with factil evidence to defend her in court.
The team received a formal summons in the case filed against her by the Federal Government at the Federal Capital Territory High Court last week.
On Friday, May 16, 2025, the Federal Government filed the suit, marked CR/297/25, over alleged defamatory remarks made during a live appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on April 3, 2025.
The government accused the senator of “making imputation knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm the reputation of a person”, citing Section 391 of the Penal Code, cap 89, Laws of the Federation, 1990.
Among the witnesses listed to testify during the trial were Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
Others include Asuquo Ekpenyong, a senator; Sandra Duru; Maya Iliya, investigating police officers; and Abdulhafiz Garba, investigating police officers.
However, in a statement issued Friday night by Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa (SAN) on behalf of the legal team, Akpoti-Uduaghan’s lawyers confirmed receipt of the formal summons and pledged to prepare all “factual and statutory defences” available to the lawmaker during trial.
“At about 2:30pm on Friday, May 23, 2025, within the premises of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, we received the information filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, containing three counts alleging that our client, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central, made imputations she had reason to believe would harm the reputation of Senator Godswill Akpabio, President of the 10th Senate,” the statement read.
“We received the said information on her behalf through a letter of authority duly issued and filed in the court’s registry.
“The legal team will fully prepare and present all factual and statutory defences available to our client during the trial.”
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) will on Tuesday next week begin the take over of 4,794 properties in Abuja, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) headquarters, due to unpaid ground rent.
The PDP headquarters, currently under construction in Abuja’s Central Business District, is among the affected properties, having been revoked in March for several years of unpaid ground rent. The FCTA disclosed that 4,794 titles had been revoked for failure to pay ground rent, with some defaults dating back 43 years.
The affected properties are located in various districts, including Central Area, Garki I and II, Wuse I and II, Asokoro, Maitama, and Guzape.
The defaulters owe over N6.96 billion in ground rent. The FCTA had given a 21-day grace period for owners with debts under 10 years, which has now expired.
The FCTA officials announced that the takeover would begin on Monday, May 26, 2025, with the sealing off and restriction of access to the affected properties.
The Director of Land Administration, Chijioke Nwankwoeze emphasized that the revocations were carried out under Section 28(5)(a)(b) of the Land Use Act, which empowers the government to reclaim land when the terms of occupancy are violated.
Two people sustained serious injuries when a training aircraft crash-landed at the Ilorin International Airport on Friday.
Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, NSIB, Mrs Bimbo Oladeji, who disclosed this in a statement, said the incident occurred at 17:28 local time on May 23, 2025, during a simulated instrument approach on Runway 05 at Ilorin International Airport.
Oladeji said the aircraft veered off the runway and came to a stop on the grass verge, leaving the two occupants on board injured.
She stated: “Both sustained serious injuries and were swiftly evacuated to a medical facility, coordinated by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA.
“In response, the NSIB Go-Team is currently preparing to depart from Abuja to Ilorin to conduct on-site investigations. The team will secure the site, collect physical evidence, interview witnesses, and retrieve operational data to establish the cause and contributing factors of the incident.”
Quoting the Director General of the NSIB, Captain Alex Badeh Jr., she said “Our thoughts are with the injured, and we commend the swift medical and emergency response. Now, our focus is on understanding exactly what went wrong. Every investigation is an opportunity to improve safety. We are deploying our team to Ilorin to ensure that no detail is overlooked.”
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