{"id":244270,"date":"2026-09-13T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ogun-releases-n6-75bn-for-gratuity-additional-pension-benefits\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:00:19","slug":"nigeria-ogun-releases-n6-75bn-for-gratuity-additional-pension-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ogun-releases-n6-75bn-for-gratuity-additional-pension-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ogun Releases N6.75bn for Gratuity, Additional Pension Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Ogun State Head of Service said that N2.751 billion was released to pay gratuity to 432 beneficiaries, while another N4 billion was released for the payment of additional pension benefits to eligible retirees from July 2025 to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ogunstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ogun State Government<\/a><\/strong> has released N6.75 billion for the payment of gratuity and additional pension benefits (APB) to retirees in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Ogun State Head of Service, Mr Olanrewaju Saka, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, saying the release was part&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609110521.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogun State Head of Service said that N2.751 billion was released to pay gratuity to 432 beneficiaries, while another N4 billion was released for the payment of additional pension benefits to eligible retirees from July 2025 to date. The Ogun State Government has released N6.75 billion for the payment of gratuity and additional pension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[7303,258,256,6481,55425,55424,257,4687,393,12407,8450,5746,254],"class_list":["post-244270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-additional","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-gratuity","tag-n6-75bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ogun","tag-pension","tag-releases","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}