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Our World: Nigeria's Retirement Hell

Nigeria's Retirement Hell

BBC News - Our World, Nigeria's Retirement Hell

Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive.

Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive due to a corrupt and inefficienct pensions system.

Nigeria's pensions system is in a mess. It leaves some elderly people penniless after decades of hard work, but it grants some politicians generous retirement packages. Pension payments are held up by corruption and inefficiency, and it is the elderly who are paying the price. Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive and travels to Cross River State to meet the Ghost Pensioners, whom the state declared dead and deprived of their pensions.

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