Pension Assets Gain N3.97trn In 10 Months As ‘Revolution’ Kicks Off

From the erstwhile Independence Day solemnisation successful 2024 till August 2025, pension money assets person gained N3.97trillion, translating to a 17 per cent summation wrong the 10-month reappraisal period.

The nation’s pension assets roseate from N21.92 trillion successful October 2024 to N25.895trillion successful August 2025, according to onethe latest fig released by the National Pension Commission (PenCom).

Available information showed that the Fund was N22.25 trillion successful November 2024, N22.51 trillion successful December 2024, N22.86 trillion successful January, 2025; N23.26trillion successful February 2025 and N23.32 trillion successful March 2025. In April 2025, it went up to N23.65trillion, portion successful May 2025, it soared to N24.01 trillion. In June 2025, it went up to N25.89 trillion, portion July 2025 was arsenic beauteous with the N24.69 trillion assets. In August 2025, the pension money assets roseate to N25.895trillion successful August 2025…

According to LEADERSHIP checks, concern income was instrumental to the continuous maturation successful the pension fund. However, the authorities level is not paying the monthly pension contributions of its workers arsenic and erstwhile due.

According to findings, the summation was attributed to caller pension contributions received, involvement from fixed income securities, and nett realised gains connected equities and communal money investments.

This is adjacent arsenic the National Pension Commission (PenCom) has launched Pension Revolution 2.0, a transformative programme of reforms that builds connected 2 decades of advancement to usher Nigeria’s pension manufacture into its adjacent signifier of maturation and resilience.

To this end, the manager wide of PenCom, Omolola Oloworaran, noted that Pension Revolution 2.0 ushers successful a caller epoch of dignity for retirees, inclusion for each Nigerian idiosyncratic and resilience for the nationalist economy.

“This programme is guided by the imaginativeness of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has directed that our pension strategy indispensable alteration dignity successful retirement, broaden entree for each Nigerians, and mobilise semipermanent savings arsenic reliable superior for nationalist development,” she said.

On the maturation successful pension assets, she stated that “the advancement demonstrates the spot of our contributory pension system, but we are not without challenges. Inflation, for instance, continues to erode the purchasing powerfulness of pensioners, and we are actively seeking innovative solutions to code this issue.”

She added that the pension manufacture continues to look the persistent contented of delays successful the outgo of accrued rights, noting that “we are moving with the Federal Government to enactment successful spot a sustainable solution that ensures retirees person their benefits promptly and without undue stress.”