One example
of this could be seen recently outside the National Railway Corp. office, where a crowd gathered, some using walking-sticks and others on wheelchairs.
The crowd of hundreds accused the corporation of not paying them their pension for 21 months.
"I feel very bad -- I'm not supposed to struggle to get my entitlement," said Henry Oyekan, 71. "Especially all the shoving that is going on."
Gbenga Ibitoye chimed in.
"We will pray for federal government to answer us in time to give us our money," Ibitoye said. "Because people are dying."
Company officials pass out paperwork for the crowd to write down their grievances, but nothing is resolved, some said.
At about the same time, a different group of Lagos seniors took their concerns to the legislature. The nearly 100 elders -- dressed in traditional clothes and head-dresses -- said they made an appointment with the Lagos House Assembly recently.
The group sat in a meeting hall waiting to talk to lawmakers.
"You're making your budget, building your roads but there's no provision for the old people and it upsets me," said Moses Iloh, 80, as he waited for lawmakers to arrive. "Today in Nigeria people have no plans for the aged."
