NIGERIA, Dec. 8 -- The National Pension Commission has announced a renewed and more aggressive compliance drive, signalling that employers who fail to remit workers' pension contributions will face firm and immediate sanctions.

The warning was delivered at a training workshop for accredited recovery agents in Lagos, where PenCom emphasised that defaulters will no longer be treated with leniency.



PenCom Director General, Omolola Oloworaran, represented by the Commissioner of Inspectorate, Samuel Chigozie Uwandu, reaffirmed that the commission is strengthening its enforcement powers to protect contributors.

She noted that continuous non-compliance undermines the purpose of the contributory pension scheme and places the retirement futu...