Firm Champions Pension Awareness With Huawei-backed Essay Contest

The Nigerian University Pension Management Company (NUPEMCO) marked the 2025 Customer Service Week with a nationwide run focused connected pension consciousness and younker empowerment.

The item of the week-long solemnisation was a Huawei-supported National Essay Competition, alongside high-impact workshops and stakeholder forums held crossed large Nigerian universities.

The solemnisation kicked disconnected astatine Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with an opening ceremonial and an insightful store themed “A Critical Analysis of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) and Its Impact connected the Nigerian Worker.” The lawsuit attracted implicit 300 attendees, including world and non-academic staff, retirees, and assemblage administrators.

Professor Kamal Bello of the National Open University delivered the keynote address, thoroughly evaluating the CPS and its relevance to the Nigerian workforce. A sheet treatment followed, featuring experts and manufacture practitioners who dissected the scheme’s successes and ongoing challenges portion recommending strategies to amended pension absorption wrong the assemblage system.

The week-long activities concluded astatine the University of Lagos, wherever Professor Mukhtar Halliru of Bayero University, Kano, delivered the closing keynote. A large item was the announcement of the NUPEMCO National Essay Competition winners, themed ‘Securing the Future: Why Pensions Matter for Every Nigerian Worker, ‘ which was partially sponsored by Huawei. The contention was unfastened to students crossed each Nigerian universities.

The Team Lead for the Essay Assessment Panel, Dr Austen Sado, stated that the contention received implicit 800 entries. After a rigorous screening process based connected published guidelines, 340 essays precocious to the last round, culminating successful the enactment of six outstanding winners representing Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.

Top Winners include: Torsen Saameer Kasmir – University of Jos (North Central), Odo Chidiebere Getrude – University of Nigeria, Nsuka (South East), Amina Ali Bello – University of Maiduguri (North East), Mohammed Sani Musa – Abdullahi Fodio University of Science and Technology (North West), Ita Mary-Kate Ikorr – University of Calabar (South South) and Israel Eze – University of Ibadan (South West)

The winners were rewarded with currency and tech prizes: N500,000 and a tablet for archetypal place, N350,000 and a tablet for 2nd place, and N200,000 and a tablet for 3rd place.

NUPEMCO’s 2025 Customer Service Week reaffirmed its committedness to stakeholder engagement, cognition sharing, and empowering young Nigerians to play an informed relation successful shaping the aboriginal of pension administration.