Tag Archives: Ikechukwu Amaechi

By Ikechukwu Amaechi When I came home on Saturday, August 31, 2024 to meet my wife, Chioma, lying on the bed with bloodshot eyes, I was alarmed. When I asked what the problem was, she retorted, “Check your phone.” She accuses me of bad telephone etiquette – not reading text messages and responding timeously – with a warning that if ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi As Nigeria battles, unarguably, its worst financial crisis since independence, it is only apposite that the most pragmatic way to pull the country’s chestnuts out of the raging economic inferno, to borrow a cliché, is to put round pegs in round holes. The appointment of Ms. Omolola Oloworaran as the new Director-General of the National Pension Commission ...

A non-governmental organization, Mbaise People’s Congress (MPC), under the leadership of Ochiagha Carl Azudibia, will on Saturday, November 25 hold its Annual Professionals Get-Together and Distinguished Achievers Award Day. MPC will use the occasion to honour and present awards to deserving Mbaise sons and daughters at the Welcome Centre Hotels, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road, Lagos by noon, according to ...

Ikechukwu Amaechi, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of Nigeria’s online newspaper, TheNiche, was born on January 26, 1967. He hails from Obohia, a bucolic community in Ekwereazu, Ahiazu-Mbaise local government area of Imo State. He is the first child in a family of eight siblings, four boys and four girls. His parents, Nze Alexander Amadikwa Amaechi was a salesman and public relations ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi Aiming always to make life in retirement most comfortable for police officers, the Nigeria Police Force Pensions Limited (NPFPL) has once again enhanced its highly innovative Retirement Resettlement Support Scheme (RRSS) by 100 per cent. This is the second time that the scheme, which is the payment of certain amount of money to retiring police officers as ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi Senator Anyim Pius Anyim will mark his 61st birthday on February 19, coming after his Diamond jubilee last year. It is a remarkable milestone because it is said that after the 60th birthday man celebrates a new life. What is even more remarkable about him is that at diamond plus one, he isn’t growing older; he is ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi When he died on August 6, 2020 at the age of 21, not many people outside his neck of the woods took notice. He was just two months short of 22 years, having been born on October 8, 1998. For someone who was not a “royalty” and died so young, his death would have been unsung. But to ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi The last time we met, he was hale and hearty. That was at the official inauguration of the NPF Pensions House, Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 20, 2020. We exchanged pleasantries. DCP Ibrahim Tarfa was happy, as always, to see me. Subsequently, as the year gradually ended, we exchanged Christmas and New Year greetings and ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi To say that the police have for too long been the people’s bête noire is to say the fact. Yet, if there is any issue the #EndSARS protests which rocked the country in October brought to the fore, it is the other fact, which is, Nigerian policemen hold the wrong end of the welfare stick in the ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi  For the management of the Nigeria Police Force Pensions Limited (NPFPL), not even the axiomatic sky is the limits. It is only a stepping stone to greater heights because the stakes in the pensions industry will always be high. That is the worldview that drives the Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) and for her clients, men and women ...