In demonstration of the Oluwaseun Faleye-led Executive Management’s commitment to ensuring Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund’s (NSITF) fulfilled its mandate of providing social protection for Nigerian workers, the Fund has empowered nineteen more beneficiaries under the vocational rehabilitation programme of the Employees’ Compensation Scheme at its mainland office in Lagos.
General Manager Claims and Compensation NSITF, Mrs. Nkiru Ede-Ogunnaike, disclosed that vocational rehabilitation for injured workers was provided for in the Employees’ Compensation Act 2010.
The General Manager, who represented the Managing Director and Chief Executive, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye at the occasion in Lagos Monday, explained that the programme involved three phases of Reorientation, vocational training, and empowerment with startup tools.
In a speech delivered on behalf of the NSITF MD, she said the event “marks another milestone in our journey to restore dignity through work for beneficiaries in the Lagos and Ibadan zones.”
“Guided by the Employees’ Compensation Act 2010, we are building pathways for injured workers to regain independence.”
The General Manager who stated that the event was a celebration of “courage, resilience, and the power of second chances,” added that it would soon go nation-wide to ensure other Nigerian workers who lost abilities to continue working due to injuries or disabilities are given new leases of life.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Taiwo Kosoko who was trained in poultry farming and empowered to set up, thanked the management of NSITF for their support and expressed hope for more support that would ensure their lives are reshaped for the better.
He particularly commended the Fund’s MD for transforming the NSITF within a very short while where the impact of the fund is felt by all major stakeholders.
The programme, which was only launched in July 2025, has since benefited fifty seven Nigerians drawn from selected zones.
