NSITF Compensates 142,576 Beneficiaries in 2025, Registers Over 7.7 Million Employees

By Roland Ekama

 

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has announced that it compensated a total of 142,576 beneficiaries from January to December 2025.

The Trust Fund also registered over 197,938 employers, covering 7,754,883 employees, among other milestones achievements so far.

 

Speaking at a programme organized by NSITF-NECA with the theme “Safe Workforce Intervention Project (SWIP) 2025 Interactive Enlightenment Forum and Award Ceremony,” held on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, in Lagos, NSITF’s Executive Director of Operations, Mojisola Alli-Macaulay

 

, noted that the federal government institution conducted Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) audits and inspections at 3,986 sites nationwide over the last 12 months.

Macaulay reiterated that NSITF has expanded its presence across Nigeria’s 36 states, with 13 regions and 62 branches.

According to her, the Trust Fund carried out 814 incident investigations involving 23 fatalities, while delivering OSH awareness and sensitization to about 2,763 employers in 2025.

Breaking down the 142,576 contingencies and beneficiaries, the Executive Director explained that 64,423 fell under the disability category, followed by 51,933 death categories have all been compensated over the last one year.

She added that 14,087 retirement benefits were claimed, 8,933 beneficiaries received medical expense refunds, 3,077 involved loss of productivity and further medical treatment (including 12 beneficiaries), and 111 cases involved the provision of prostheses , all compensated so far.

 

Highlighting challenges, Macaulay said employers’ unwillingness to comply with legislation, under-declaration of employee emoluments and staff strength, delays in reporting injuries, and late submission of claims have hindered progress.

She also noted poor responses from other tiers of government—federal, state, and local—as discouraging, adding that public awareness of the Employers Compensation Scheme (ECS) remains relatively low despite the fund’s sensitization efforts.

Looking ahead, the Director stated: “We will work harder to upscale employer onboarding and compliance enforcement across the three tiers of government and the informal sector.

“We will deepen OSH advocacy and workplace safety monitoring, expand and enhance the digitalization of our operational processes for seamless, fast service delivery to all stakeholders.”

She added that strategic projections for the year would emphasize intensive public advocacy and awareness, extending safe workplace incentive programmes to additional sectors and states.

“We will also foster continuous collaboration with NECA and other stakeholders, driving sustainable social protection in Nigeria through full ECS compliance across the board,” Macaulay noted.

NSITF Governing Board member Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, speaking on the sidelines of the event, commended the Managing Director for the commitment and innovation.

He described the NSITF-NECA programme as a positive signal for workers’ welfare, noting that recorded achievements would prioritize it without hitches.

Adeyanju added that the board and management share a robust relationship in advocacy, advice, and awareness.

The former President General of the Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN) praised the management team’s proactivity under new leadership, saying the programme has reawakened workers’ solidarity.

Adeyanju noted that “What you are seeing today is a success story. We are not representing ourselves alone but all workers in Nigeria,” he said.