Obaigbena escapes mob action, meets with management staff at Apapa Club

The Chairman of THISDAY newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, on Thursday escaped a mob action as protesting staff of the company moved to beat him up.
Obaigbena, who showed up at the headquarters of the company in Lagos where the staff were protesting the failure of the management to pay their salary for four months, was practically rough handled and booed.
Sources at the Apapa headquarters of the newspaper told The Eagle Online that the Duke, as Obaigbena is fondly called, felt humiliated by the action of the staff.
The leaderships of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and NUPPROW had stormed the company on Thursday morning to picket it.
THISDAY is owing the staff four months salary and the belief of most of the staff is that Obaigbena has the capacity to pay the money but prefers to live large at the expense of the staff who generate the money.
Meanwhile, competent sources within the company told The Eagle Online that Obaigbena is in a meeting with the management staff of the company as at the time of filing this report.
The meeting, it was learnt, is holding at the prestigeous Apapa Club.
Among those at the meeting are the Managing Editor, Eniola Bello, the Daily Editor, Ijeoma Nwogwugwu; and Collins Edomaruse.
It was gathered that the picketing of the company would not stop until the salary arrears are cleared.