NSIFF Commended For Employment Compensation

 

Prof. Emmanuel Adigio,, the Vice Chancellor, Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State,  has commended the "visible" efforts of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) in driving it's Employee Compensation Scheme(ECS). 

Addressing a team from the NSITF on a sensitisation and advocacy visit to the university,  he applauded the body  for it's determination.

He assured the NSITF that the university's tender’s board would henceforth list the NSITF compliance certificate as a mandatory requirement for contract bidding.

A statement  on Sunday by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the NSITF, Nwachukwu Godson  read "I am glad and impressed that you took the pains, time and risk to come this far to enlighten us. 

"Your resolve, detailed presentation of the vast benefits of the scheme, how to access them and your account of traceable beneficiaries of the scheme around us, have shown the seriousness of your organisation."

Earlierthe Managing Director of the NSITF, Barr. Maureen Allagoa who was represented by Warri Branch Manager of the Fund, Mr. Erhire Joseph Ọghifo, said the NSITF has successfully keyed into the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Tinubu administration adding  that the fund as the key social security agency of the Federal Government has enormous role in lifting the lots of the workers of Nigeria.  

 He said “We offer free occupational safety training to workers to eliminate hazards and promote productivity. We also meet the workers at their critical point of need – eventuality of accidents or even death in the course of work. We rehabilitate, we pay benefits and assist a worker get up on his feet again. And where the inevitable comes, we assist dependants, the bereaved family live beyond tears

Reacting to the development, the Managing Director, Barr. Allagoa said merit-based career progression was a sine qua non for boosting the morale of the workforce towards optimal productivity. 

She assured of the determination of the management to re-engineer the operations of the fund to adequately play its role as the nation’s number one social security vehicle, and leave no stone unturned in taking every measure necessary to achieve an efficient  and resilient workforce.