Abuja, June 17, 2025 – The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has paid additional N8.6 billion instalment of pension arrears arising from the N32,000 pension increment approved by President Bola Tinubu in 2024.
Olugbenga Ajayi, the PTAD Head of Corporate Communications, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
He said the payments were made to all the 148,625 eligible beneficiaries under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).
The affected pensioners were from the police, civil service, parastatals, as well as the customs, immigration and prisons pensions departments of the directorate.
Ajayi said N5.7 billion was paid to 59,342 eligible pensioners under the Parastatals Pensions Department (PaPD), while N2.3 billion was paid to 71,084 eligible pensioners under the Civil Service Pensions Department (CSPD).
He said N310 million was paid to 9,579 pensioners under the Police Pension Department (PPD), while N276 million was paid to 8,620 pensioners under the Customs, Immigration and Prisons (now Correctional Service) Pension Department.
Ajayi said PTAD had earlier paid the arrears of the first 20 to 28 per cent pension increment which took effect from January 2024.
The statement quoted Tolulope Odunaiya, the Executive Secretary of PTAD, as assuring the pensioners of the unwavering commitment of the federal government to full settlement of the outstanding balance accruing from the increment.
