Pension Fund Assets Hit N25.8trn As 10.88m Workers Enrol

The nation’s pension money assets roseate from N25.797 trillion successful July 2025 to N25.895trillion successful August 2025, rising by N98 cardinal wrong the play nether review, LEADERSHIP learnt.

This is adjacent arsenic astir 10.88 cardinal workers had joined the caller pension scheme, the Contributory Pension Scheme(CPS), arsenic of the extremity of August 2025.

Available information dated September 29, 2025, and sourced from the National Pension Commission(PenCom) by LEADERSHIP shows that concern successful FGN Securities was N15.82 trillion successful August 2025, portion concern successful Corporate Debt Securities was N2.23 trillion.

Money Market Instruments gulped N2.4trillion arsenic Mutual Funds attracted N226.4 cardinal successful August 2025.
According to the LEADERSHIP checks, concern income was instrumental to the continuous maturation successful the pension fund, contempt the information that immoderate governments, chiefly astatine the authorities level, are not paying their workers’ monthly pension contributions arsenic and erstwhile due.

Similarly, the immense increase, according to the findings, was attributed to caller pension contributions received, involvement from fixed-income securities, and nett realised gains connected equities and communal money investments.

Meanwhile, the manager wide of the National Pension Commission(PenCom), Ms Omolola Oloworaran, said: “This 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.”

Similarly, the enforcement secretary/CEO, Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), Oguche Aguda, portion applauding the contributions of pension money operators toward increasing the assets, assured pension contributors that their funds are successful harmless hands, attesting to the information that determination has been nary reported mismanagement of pension funds nether the caller scheme.