The study investigated financial pre-retirement plans of lecturers in public universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Two (2) research questions were formulated and answered while two (2) hypotheses were tested at 0.05alpha level. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consisted of all the 2330 lecturers in the three public universities in Rivers State. As at the time of this study, each of the universities has the following population respectively: University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) 1500, Rivers State University (RSU) 556, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) 274 making a total of 2330 lecturers from the three (3) public universities in Rivers State. (Source: Registry Department of the institutions 2017). A sample size of 932 lecturers was used. The sample size was drawn using simple random sampling technique. The instrument for the study was titled “Financial Pre-Retirement Plans of Lecturers Scale” (FPRPLS). Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions while Chi-Square statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. It was found among others that 46% of the lecturers agreed that they have financial plans while 54% disagreed. It was recommended among others that economists and finance managers should from time to time be invited to the universities in Rivers State to sensitize the lecturers on the possible ways to make savings out of their regular salaries.
Keywords: Financial Pre-retirement and Plans, Lecturers
