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    Retired Nigeria Police Force men and their families blocked a gate at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday to protest their continued inclusion in the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). The demonstrators, led by the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria (PROF), branded the program as "fraudulent, illegal, inhumane, and obnoxious" and urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign the Police Exit Bill. According to the retirees, if signed into law, the bill, which was passed by the National Assembly on December 4, 2025, and transmitted to the president on March 16, 2026, would remove police personnel from the CPS. The National Coordinator of PROF, CSP Raphael Irowainu (retd.), led the protest and stated that the goal was to get the president to act on the legislation. “Our major aim here is to prevail on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign our bill—the bill exiting the police from the Contributory Pension Scheme—passed by the National Assembly on 4th December 2025 and transmitted to him on 16th March 2026 into law, nothing more than that,” he said. Ads by Irowainu bemoaned that while other security agencies have been removed from the scheme, police personnel remain included. “The soldiers have been exited, the SSS has been exited, the Air Force has been exited, the Navy has been exited, and the National Intelligence Agency has been exited. The police, who are the father of them all, are trapped in this obnoxious Contributory Pension Scheme,” he added. The pensioners maintained that the CPS had a negative impact on their wellbeing, calling it a "slavery and untimely death-inducing pension scheme." Monday's demonstration is not the first time retired police officers have raised the issue. In July 2025, retirees held a similar demonstration at the National Assembly, seeking their expulsion from the plan. Some demonstrators, many of whom were elderly, also protested at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, expressing their dissatisfaction with the CPS's pension arrangements. The latest protest reflects rising frustration among retired police officers with pension reforms and their exclusion from benefits provided to other security organizations.

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    Adaora Umeoji: Nigerians laud new Zenith Bank CEO

    Vincent OsuwoBy Vincent OsuwoMarch 20, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Adaora Umeoji: 10 things to know about new Zenith Bank CEO
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    Dr. Adaora Umeoji, the new Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank, has enamored Nigerians not only with her enthralling beauty but also with her wealth of experience in the banking sector and her remarkable academic qualifications.

    With many describing her as “beauty with brains”, Nigerians who have been agog over her appointment as the new Zenith Bank boss has remained fascinated over her qualifications.

    Umeoji, who holds first degrees in sociology, accounting, and law, also has master’s degrees from the University of Calabar and the University of Salford.

    She also has up her sleeves a Doctorate Degree in Business Administration from Apollos University, Montana, USA.

    While Pablo Ezqo described her as a “quintessential description of beauty with brains” CFC Jogues noted that she’s “not just a pretty face. While some women are there just for a man to take care of them, Adaora Umeoji is there taking care of business.”

    For Anthony Ofordum, he noted that Umeoji’s qualifications  “is never an easy feat. One thing about knowledge is that the more you learn, the more you feel you don’t know.”

    An X user simply identified as CJO notes that “Adaora’s Degree is not a scam; she merited it, and she started with Zenith when they newly opened. It has been long, and she deserves it.”

    Reacting to her emergence as Zenith Bank boss, former Nigerian lawmaker Sen. Shehu Sani wrote in a statement on X, “Dear Zenith Bank, with this as your new CEO, you just stylishly want all depositors to shift to your bank. Other banks take note.”

    Otakeri Oghenero noted that the Zenith Bank boss started working with the bank during her compulsory National Youth Service (NYSC).

    She wrote, “She is very beautiful. I saw her in one Zenith Bank branch in 2017; she has been with them for so long; she started as a youth corp member.”

    “She is very beautiful; she will take good care of people’s money, like her face,” Suleiman Abubakar Hamza writes.

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    Retired Nigeria Police Force men and their families blocked a gate at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday to protest their continued inclusion in the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). The demonstrators, led by the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria (PROF), branded the program as "fraudulent, illegal, inhumane, and obnoxious" and urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign the Police Exit Bill. According to the retirees, if signed into law, the bill, which was passed by the National Assembly on December 4, 2025, and transmitted to the president on March 16, 2026, would remove police personnel from the CPS. The National Coordinator of PROF, CSP Raphael Irowainu (retd.), led the protest and stated that the goal was to get the president to act on the legislation. “Our major aim here is to prevail on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign our bill—the bill exiting the police from the Contributory Pension Scheme—passed by the National Assembly on 4th December 2025 and transmitted to him on 16th March 2026 into law, nothing more than that,” he said. Ads by Irowainu bemoaned that while other security agencies have been removed from the scheme, police personnel remain included. “The soldiers have been exited, the SSS has been exited, the Air Force has been exited, the Navy has been exited, and the National Intelligence Agency has been exited. The police, who are the father of them all, are trapped in this obnoxious Contributory Pension Scheme,” he added. The pensioners maintained that the CPS had a negative impact on their wellbeing, calling it a "slavery and untimely death-inducing pension scheme." Monday's demonstration is not the first time retired police officers have raised the issue. In July 2025, retirees held a similar demonstration at the National Assembly, seeking their expulsion from the plan. Some demonstrators, many of whom were elderly, also protested at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, expressing their dissatisfaction with the CPS's pension arrangements. The latest protest reflects rising frustration among retired police officers with pension reforms and their exclusion from benefits provided to other security organizations.

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