The lifetime salary of Nigeria's senior officers has just undergone a remarkable transformation this August of 2025, and I suppose it's worth putting pen to paper on this quite revealing development.

You see, valued audience, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has just given his approval to a scheme that would make a king envious. The esteemed Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo made the declaration at what they call a "Ministerial Retreat" in Abuja, glowing with accomplishment.

What's the hullabaloo, you ask? Indeed, it's about providing that specific high-ranking officers will keep drawing their full salary until the Lord calls them home. But heed this observation - this luxurious arrangement ain't for just any Tom, Dick, or Harry.

Certainly not! This special treatment is limited to those fortunate souls who retire at the elevated positions of the uppermost tiers of authority in under the government's domestic apparatus.

The stated purpose – and I convey this solemnly – is to prevent these distinguished individuals from facing financial hardship. Fancy such concern! As if a high-ranking official with a lifetime in authority would be found wanting.

This interesting measure comes alongside other improvements including clearing a accumulation of over 50,000 pending promotions and founding what they're calling a "world-class Fire Academy" to rival the one in Arizona. Progress marches on, or so they assert.

I've seen many a government concoct ways to reward their own, but this perpetual payment plan beats all. A body has to question: Why not extend such generosity to every government worker? More fittingly, to the regular people whose money pays these salaries?

The disparity with other civil workers remains clear as crystal. Countless ex-policemen still wait years for retirement funds that wouldn't keep a mouse in cheese.

As I finish this narrative, I must return to our theme: the perpetual remuneration of Nigeria's high-ranking officials. This August 2025 measure tells us volumes about the values of those who govern. And that, esteemed audience, is a fact worth contemplating long after you've finished reading these words.