 President Muhammad Abu Hari has approved the payment of the consequential adjustment to pensioners under the defined benefit scheme in line with the minimum wage approved in 2019. The Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate Chioma Ejikeme, announced this at a news conference. She said that with the presidential approval, PCAD had been empowered to start the upward adjustment of all pensioners' benefits according to the approved template. Ejikeme said that the adjustment of the new pension payment will start from May 2021, added that the payment of the areas would cover the period of the implementation of the minimum wage. The Executive Secretary advised them not to give their account details to anybody and to report any scammer to any of the security agencies or PTAD.