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Poor police pension killing morale in service – IG
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The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has raised concerns over the plight of retired officers under the Contributory Pension Scheme, saying many live in humiliating conditions.
He said the hardship has instilled fear and anxiety among serving officers, weakening morale across the ranks.
He stated this during a meeting with senior police officers in Abuja.
On July 21, 2025, retired police officers protested in Abuja, lamenting their poor treatment and humiliating pension payments.
During the protest, they demanded to be removed from the Contributory Pension Scheme, which they claimed had been shortchanging them.
Egbetokun, speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, said the living conditions of retired officers were unacceptable, given the sacrifices they made in service.
“Today, most retired officers of the Nigerian Police Force live in conditions that are not only unacceptable, but humiliating, given the sacrifices they made in service to the nation.
“Their monthly pension under the CPS is maximally low and roughly inadequate to meet even the most basic needs. Many can no longer afford health care, housing, or a life of dignity,” Egbetokun said.
He added, “One area I remain deeply committed to is the welfare of our retired officers under the Contributory Pensions Scheme. Their post-service condition is heartbreaking and morally unacceptable.
“This has turned retirement into a period of hardship and regret, eroding the confidence of serving officers, who now see their future with fear rather than hope.”
Egbetokun said the poor state of retirees was affecting the morale of serving officers.
“Among serving officers, there exists a growing and deep-rooted anxiety, born from the belief, rightly or wrongly, that retirement is a descent into hardship.
“This fear has become so pervasive that it is having a noticeable demoralising effect on morale across ranks,” he said.
He added that while the police leadership supported exiting the scheme, decisions must be guided by “prudence and strategy” to avoid future pitfalls.
Egbetokun noted that efforts to sensitise officers about the CPS had been misunderstood.
“Attempts made to educate them on the operation of the Contributory Pensions Scheme have been taken as attempts to keep them in perpetual bondage of the CPS,” he said.
The police boss said the leadership had initiated efforts to augment the pension of retired officers and had presented its position to the National Assembly during the public hearing of the bill seeking to exempt the police from the scheme.
He said, “This stance was further reinforced in my recent letter to the National Assembly.
“While the agitation for our exit from the Contributory Pensions Scheme is just and deeply rooted in lived realities, it is imperative that our actions are guided by prudence and strategy.”
Egbetokun, however, cautioned against hasty decisions.
The IG said, “I sounded a caution that my people should look well before they jump into any exit.
“There may be a booby trap in the bill. So what is the use in exiting out of this bill and jumping into uncertainty?”
He noted that his earlier comments were misinterpreted as opposition to exiting the scheme.
“Some people have interpreted that to mean that I don’t want the police to exit the CPS. That is not true. But people often know that that’s not exactly what it meant,” he said.
He also urged police commanders to engage with serving and retired officers to sensitise them to ongoing efforts by the police leadership to improve their welfare.
Egbetokun also announced a new welfare incentive aimed at boosting morale among serving officers.
He said any officer who wins the Inspector-General’s award for exceptional professionalism twice consecutively would be considered for accelerated promotion.
He said the initiative was designed to promote a culture of excellence, creativity, and patriotism within the Force.
“To further boost morale amongst serving officers, I am proud to announce a new welfare incentive.
“Any officer who wins the IDP’s award for exceptional professionalism twice consecutively will now be considered for accelerated promotion.
“This is not just a reward, it is a call to excellence, creativity, and patriotism.
“We are building a culture where excellence is not just applauded, but advanced. The good thing is here. A motivated force is an effective force.
“Let us also recognise that while past efforts are commendable, they are not enough. Crime does not rest. Criminals do not pause,” he said.
Asked to comment on remarks by a former Inspector-General, Usman Baba, criticising him on the CPS, Egbetokun said, “For those who know me, I believe in service discipline. I would, therefore, not want to join issues with him.”
Baba, the immediate-past IGP, in an interview with ESET TV, lamented that some of his colleagues had not received their retirement benefits, years after leaving service.
“There are some of my colleagues who have not even gotten their retirement benefits up till today, and there is this segregation,” the former IGP said.
“He added, “Like I’m getting my salary every month, and these are my colleagues whom we joined together, progressed together, and are not getting.
“Just last week, Isah, my PA, who retired seven months ago, was telling me that he had not gotten one kobo up till today.
“How do you expect performance, loyalty, and commitment when you are afraid of retiring?”
Baba said Egbetokun, since assuming duty, had never consulted him on police administrative matters or the lingering pension crisis.
“Like, unfortunately, the man who succeeded me, he has not known much of what police administration is, rather than operation, because he has been in the field,” he said.
He alleged that there was a time Egbetokun even supported the pension programme.
Asked if there is a platform where serving and former IGPs meet to discuss institutional issues, Baba said such a forum exists but is rarely activated.
“We have a forum, but you know the IG’s office is a very busy office, but it all depends on who is there and how he thinks it is important for him to level on experience,” he said.
Fire has engulfed Lagos airport’s Terminal 2.
FAAN said its Aerodrome Rescue and Firefighting Service (ARFFS) had been deployed to contain the fire.
“The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) wishes to inform the public that a fire incident has occurred at Terminal 2 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos,” the statement read.
“The FAAN Aerodrome Rescue and Firefighting Service (ARFFS) is currently responding to the incident and working diligently to contain the situation.”
FAAN said there were no reported casualties or loss of life.
“There have been no reported casualties or loss of life,” the authority stated.
It added that further updates would be provided as more information becomes available.
…as China, Italy-bound cocaine concealed in local mortar, backpack intercepted in Lagos
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in local mortar and false bottom of a backpack packaged for shipment to China and Italy respectively through a logistics company in Lagos.
The seizures made by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigations (DOGI) on Thursday 30th July 2026 include 250grams of cocaine factory fitted into the base of a local mortar packed in a carton for export to China, and 500grams of the same class A drug hidden in the false bottom of a backpack being shipped to Italy.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Rivers state have arrested a 38-year-old notorious drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island Port Harcourt, following credible intelligence.
The suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol and codeine syrup at the time of his arrest on Sunday 26th July.
NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation at DMGS roundabout, Onitsha, Anambra state on Monday 27th July intercepted a truck marked XK 131 BDG loaded with 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960kg while the truck driver Chinedu Nwanze, 40, was arrested.
While 331.84 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KUJ 26 DV along Kwale/Ughelli expressway, Delta state on Sunday 26th July, NDLEA officers in Nasarawa state on Tuesday 28th July arrested a 64-year-old man Joseph Nwaeke with 68kg skunk and 29grams of methamphetamine at Asso Angwan Muazu, Karu area of the state.
In Zamfara, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Zaria- Gusau highway on Monday 27th July intercepted a suspect, Sani Umar, 27, conveying 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg suspected to be supplies for criminal elements.
With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week. These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Hausawa Special Primary School, Kano; Royal Crown School, Oluyole, Ibadan; Government Secondary School, Ibi, Taraba; and drivers at Challenge Bus Terminal Park, Ibadan, Oyo state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Rivers, Anambra, Delta, Nasarawa, and Zamfara Commands for the various successful operations, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
Leaders of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the South West have asked the party’s national leadership to immediately remove Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Interim National Secretary, accusing him of brazen constitutional violations that are threatening the party ahead of 2027.
The South West leaders, in a petition dated July 28, 2026, signed by state chairmen from across the zone and addressed to the National Chairman, said they resolved during an emergency meeting in Ibadan that Aregbesola’s conduct had plunged the ADC into avoidable crises.
According to DAILY POST, the copies of the letter signed by Olusoji Adebiyi, Ogun State Secretary; Abideen Okanlawon, Osun State Acting Chairman; Adesola Akitunde, Osun State Youth Leader; Yinka Olona, Oyo State Chairman; Adebimpe Adelowo, Oyo State member; Ilesanmi Olaiya, Ekiti State Chairman, among others, were copied to the National Working Committee (NWC), National Executive Committee (NEC), the party’s 2027 presidential candidate, the vice-presidential candidate, and the National Legal Adviser.
The chairmen alleged that Aregbesola created a parallel structure across South West states under the name “Omoluabi Progressive” and began parading officers of the splinter group as legitimate ADC executives from the ward to the state level, asserting that this directly contravenes the ADC constitution.
They cited Article 22, Section 1 (2, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11) of the party’s constitution, listing offences including breach of the constitution, acts likely to bring the party into disrepute, disobedience to lawful directives, creation of parallel organs, and collusion to convene unauthorised meetings.
The petitioners also accused the former Osun State governor of using his office to interfere in the party’s candidate selection process, alleging that on the last day for uploading National Assembly candidates, Aregbesola “colluded with some cohorts within INEC” to remove duly elected ADC candidates who emerged from INEC-monitored primaries and replace them with members of his Omoluabi Progressive group who never purchased nomination forms.
They also blamed Aregbesola for the lingering crises in Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states, alleging that he usurped the functions of the National Organising Secretary by appointing parallel primary election committees and submitting them to INEC.
Part of the petition reads:
“We, the undersigned State Chairmen of the South West Zone of the ADC, on behalf of the ADC South West Zonal Stakeholders, write to officially transmit our resolutions reached during the South West Zone emergency stakeholders’ meeting held on July 28, 2026, in Ibadan and equally request urgent action regarding the ceaseless, blatant violations and brazen breaches of our party’s constitution by OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA.
“OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA acted directly in contravention of our great party’s constitution by creating parallel party structures across the South West states, including local government areas and wards, under the name and style of Omoluabi Progressive, and parading the so-called officers of this splinter group as the legitimate structures and officers of our great party across the South West, contrary to the provisions of the party constitution.
“His actions and activities do not in any way befit the status, carriage, disposition and character expected of any person occupying the high-ranking and sensitive position of National Secretary of a great party like the ADC.
“We equally learnt from reliable sources that OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA used his position as National Secretary to collude with some of his cohorts within INEC to, on July 14, 2026, the last day for uploading National Assembly candidates, unlawfully infiltrate the party’s system and fraudulently substitute the names of successful National Assembly candidates who emerged through INEC-monitored primary elections across the South West and other zones of the country with members of his Omoluabi Progressive splinter group, who did not even purchase nomination forms in the first place.”
The South West ADC leaders demanded that the coalition leadership review Aregbesola’s appointment and relieve him of his position, urging it to present a new, “competent, loyal and patriotic” replacement.
“OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA is not fit to hold the position of Interim National Secretary. His continued stay in office will spell doom for the party.
“We therefore request the coalition leadership to review the appointment of OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA as Interim National Secretary, relieve him of this position, and request the APC extraction of the coalition to present a new, suitable person who is competent, loyal, amiable, patriotic and possesses the native intelligence required to lead the South West zone and the ADC to victory in 2027,” the petition added.
They urged the NWC and NEC to act urgently to stem the crisis and save the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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