Afriland Towers Fire: NSITF pledges prompt payment of victims’ benefits

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — THE Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, has promised to fastrack payments of claims and benefits owed the injured arsenic good arsenic families and dependents of victims of Afriland Towers occurrence disaster.

The assurance was fixed erstwhile NSITF squad paid a condolence sojourn connected the absorption of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, astatine its Ikoyi, Lagos office, and that of United Capital Plc and dependents of the deceased victims.

The Fund’s absorption team, led by the General Manager, Compliance, Mr Abdullateef Musa, who stood successful for the Managing Director and Chief Executive, Barr. Olúwaseun Faleye, expressed profound condolences to FIRS and the families of the victims.

He said: “The NSITF was established to supply societal information sum to employees. We basal with you and the affected families astatine this hard times, and we guarantee you that successful enactment with our mandate, each benefits owed the dependents of the deceased workers volition beryllium promptly and duly processed.”

He stated further that the Fund recognised “the extent of this loss, not lone to your organisation, but to the bereaved families, colleagues and the wider assemblage of workers.”

Acknowledging the permanency of the nonaccomplishment of lives, the GM affirmed the Fund’s resoluteness to “support and basal by the families near behind.”

Responding, Mr Innocent Ugwuoke, an Assistant Director with FIRS, thanked NSITF’s absorption for identifying with the bureau and families of the victims.

He commended the punctual effect of the Fund and the Employees’ Compensation Scheme, ECS, which ensured that enrolled workers and their dependents were not near precocious and adust successful times of emergencies.

Ugwuoke advocated further sensitisation to acquaint employers and employees of benefits of enrolling successful the Scheme.

The Afriland Towers occurrence of September 16, 2025, claimed 10 lives and injured respective others . Four of the dormant were employees of the FIRS, portion six worked with United Capital Plc.

At the gathering with the absorption of United Capital Plc and dependents of the deceased employees of the company,   the company’s Director of Human Resources, Oluseye Komolafe, lauded the Scheme’s packages and the Fund for ratio and effectual prime work delivery.

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