Xmas, New Year: FUG Pensions partners FRSC on safe driving

By Abdul Olalekan

As preparation for Christmas and New Year festivals is gradually entering its peak, Future Unity Glanvills (FUG) Pensions Limited has partnered the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) to sensitise drivers on speed limits, especially, during the festive period.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Business 247 News Online, the General Manager & Head of Investment, FUG Pensions, Mrs. Ngozi Chuks-Okeke, said her Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) donated reflective jackets and distributed handbills to educate drivers plying Nigerian roads on the need to maintain speed limits, drive with good tyres and always adhere to a safe drive tips all the times, especially, in the current month, where people travel for Christmas and New Year festivals.

She added that the firm equally partnered with Lion’s Club, adopted a classroom at Anthony Village Primary School, where it furnished the classroom with furniture as well as partnered with Bells of Mercy Orphange Home, all in Lagos State.

Earlier, the Managing Director, FUG Pensions, Mr. Usman Suleiman, while speaking  at the Christmas Carrol organised for children of the Down Syndrome Foundation at the head office of FUG Pension in Yaba, Lagos, he said the purpose of the Carroll was to assist the children with Down syndrome have a sense of belonging in the society.

He added that his firm, had in the past, supported  the Foundation morally, physically and financially, in a bid to give back to the society it is conducting its business activities.

Promising that the PFA will continue to impact the lives of especially, the less privileged so that they can be successful in the society, Suleiman stressed that this is also an avenue to sell, not only FUG Pensions brand, but also the entire pension scheme in the country.

This is our own little way of contributing to the society we operates in and we will continue to do more of this, he pointed out.

FUG Pensions was licensed by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) on the 21st of June, 2007 to carry on the business of Pension Fund Administration.

It has an authorised and paid up share capital of N1.5Billion and operates from six regional offices in Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Abuja, Kano Maiduguri and Lagos and several branch/zonal offices spread across the country.

Down syndrome Foundation Nigeria (DSFN) is a non-governmental, non-political, not-for-profit association was established in December 2001, with the avowed commitment to bridge the gap between children/adults with Down syndrome (DS) with the rest of the society, through a support system that seeks ultimately to integrate them into the mainstream of the society which they belong.