Trust Fund Plans More Branches, Service Centres

Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) plans to create new branches and service centres in 2024 to bring its services to most Nigerians in line with the social inclusion standards of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 102.

Its managing-director, Maureen Allagoa, in a New Year message issued on her behalf by the  general manager of corporate affairs, Nwachukwu Godson, said the agency would consolidate its 2023 achievements and expand the percentage of the population protected by social security schemes.

Allagoa said the agency would also expand operations into the informal sector and other unreached areas in dire need of its services to save more people from lacerating social conditions.

She said the focus is to reach Nigerians in the remote hinterland while reducing commuting distance for staff members.

She said with the delivery of social security benefits under different compensation packages to over 103,000 beneficiaries in the past years, the NSITF under her management has certainly placed its duck in a row for the New Year.

“These are visible achievements which form the base of our plans for the New Year, of course, encouraged  by the wider operation coverage  as well as challenges occasioned  by the directive of the  secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Senator George Akume following the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approval, that all the MDAs comply with the mandatory  Employees’ Compensation Contributions,” she said.