The workers had last week threatened a showdown should the company fail to renege on its plan to sack them without any benefits and proper payment of their accumulated salary arrears
Author: Adewole Martins
While the governor categorically said “a total of 10 contracts were immediately repudiated for non-performance” when he assumed office in 2007, he hinted that 24 others are at various stages of repudiation by the state
But the 55 workers, junior staff, have threatened a showdown via labour dispute extant laws, wondering why the oil giant subjected them to “slave wage” having operated for over 50 years in their land
Deaconess Roli, who is the chairman and originator of the Master-Care Foundation, aka I Care, said the gesture marks the beginning of good tidings for women in that category
A police source said the suspects were detained at the command’s Criminal Investigation Department at its headquarters in Asaba, the state capital, before their mysterious disappearance
Nemesis was said to have caught up with her on Monday after stealing a one-year-old baby, Proper Okolie, at Atum-Iga
He has since reconciled with Ibori’s faction after which he was allegedly compensated with a road contract within the state to off-set his election expenses
It was also learnt that in the state-owned-newspaper, THE POINTER,
casual workers, who constitute the brain behind the success of the
newspaper outfit, especially as the Features Editors, the Business
Editors, the Education Editors, the Arts Editors, Proof Readers,
Sub-Editors, Copy Writers and the Photographers – attached to the
State House of Assembly and Office of the Wife of the Governor, who
are casual workers, had worked tirelessly but could not make the list
of the absorption exercise
The gang, said the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Lucky Uyabeme, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, before taking their victim to their den, robbed his parents of their N100,000
The garden, planted by a Desert Warrior and an indomitable relentless crusader for a sustainable environment, Dr. Newton Jibunor, was to attract concern against environmental degradation