Pensioners under the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have praised the agency's managing director, Oluwaseun Faleye, for paying out long-overdue arrears. The money settles a Supreme Court judgment that had been pending for 23 years. Many retirees had spent years petitioning for the ruling to be enforced, with little to show for it. Faleye's decision to move on the debt has drawn unusual thanks from a group often left out of budget conversations. Pensioners say the arrears arrived as many members were contending with rising food and medical costs. Some had all but written the money off. Attention now turns to whether the fund keeps future payments on schedule without another court order.