Plans are underway by the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to conduct the 2023 management promotion examination exercise for its senior management staff.

General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the NSITF, Nwachukwu Godson, who stated this in Abuja, revealed that the exercise will be held from October 3 to 6, 2023.

This is in fulfillment of the agreement reached with the domestic units of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) and the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution Employees (NUBFIE) midwifed by the immediate past Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Daju Kachollom, at a conciliation meeting convened on July 10, 2023.

Reacting to the development, the Managing Director of NSITF, Maureen Allagoa, said merit-based career progression is a sine qua non for boosting the morale of the workforce towards optimal productivity.

She assured of the determination of the management to re-engineer the operations of the Fund to adequately play its role as the nation’s number one social security vehicle.

She also noted that despite challenges, she was leaving no stone unturned in taking every measure necessary to achieve an efficient and resilient workforce.

Recall that the computer-based promotion examination for the non-management cadre successfully took place on July 28, 2023, across the 12 regions of the NSITF.

In the meantime, the Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Prof. Emmanuel Adigio, has commended the NSITF for the renewed determination to bring elastic benefits of the Employee Compensation Scheme (ECS) to the doorstep of all Nigerian workers.

He said: “I am glad and impressed that you took the pains, time and risk to come this far to enlighten us. Your resolve, detailed presentation of the vast benefits of the scheme, how to access them and your account of traceable beneficiaries of the scheme around us, have shown the seriousness of your organisation.”

He also extolled the management of the NSITF for its sensitivity to the needs of the nation’s workforce and promised to keenly study the scheme along with his team, to enroll the staff of the university as soon as possible.

He further assured the NSITF that the university’s tender board would henceforth list the NSITF compliance certificate as a mandatory requirement for contract bidding.