{"id":312367,"date":"2024-02-29T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=312367"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:19:51","slug":"senate-extends-retirement-age-of-nass-staff-to-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/02\/29\/senate-extends-retirement-age-of-nass-staff-to-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate extends retirement age of NASS staff to 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>If the Bill is signed into law, staff of the National Assembly Service would now retire at age 65 years instead of 60 years and 40 years in service instead of 35 years<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Senate on Thursday, February 29, passed a Bill that seeks to add five years to the retirement age of staff of the National Assembly Service.<\/p>\n<p>If the Bill is signed into law, staff of the National Assembly Service would now retire at age 65 years instead of 60 years and 40 years in service instead of 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill titled: \u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/02\/29\/reps-pass-nigerian-peace-corps-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill<\/a> for an Act to Make Provisions for the Retirement Age of Staff of National Assembly Service and for Other Related Matters, 2024,\u201d transmitted to the Senate from the House of Representatives for concurrence was last week stepped down by the red chamber to allow for further consultation.<\/p>\n<p>In reintroducing the Bill, Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, said the needed consultations had been done and the Bill was now fit for passage.<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA earlier reported that there was tension among staff of the National Assembly over the planned extension of the tenure of the current Clerk, Sani Magaji Tambawal, and over 200 staff due for retirement in November this year would have their tenures extended by five years.<\/p>\n<p>However, 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