He said that apart from an avalanche of social media network, more than 1,000 bloggers were operating in the media industry in the country.
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As at press time on Thursday, it was learnt that most of the staff, including the editors, have collected the N10,000, dubbed as bonus for the Sallah festivity, by Obaigbena
The staff had last week Wednesday embarked on a warning strike to protest their unpaid salaries for May, June and July 2013
The other areas of friction include withholding of staff contributions to the cooperative society and non-remittance of staff contributory pension fund
It was learnt that the staff who have chosen to return to work are not getting a good deal either
It is a misnomer for a person to be addressed as an employer of labour yet not be able to pay the salary that goes with labour when it is expected. Not be able? I am not buying. Obaigbene, the flamboyant publisher of ThisDay and other titles, truly appears able to offset the wage bill of his employees even before each month gets to the midfield. It then becomes a puzzle of inexplicable proportion why the well-to-do entrepreneur has taken to this attitude
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
It was learnt that ongoing work at the printing section of the media house, located in Apapa area of Lagos State, was stopped by the unions
A top source within the company told The Eagle Online that the staff were shocked and embarrassed when their banks alerted them on Friday that they had been credited with salary for March 2013 without a word from the management on those of January and February
Following several enquiries, I write to notify you that we are working very hard to pay delayed salaries
The source, who also alleged that the management of Leaders and Company Limited, publishers of THISDAY, was deducing staff pension fund without remitting it and paying its own contribution, said the company equally engaged in taking the contributions of members of the company’s Cooperative Society deducted directly from their salary without giving same to the society
Those who died were Pastor Agaga Silver, a staff in the maintenance sector of the Lagos office; and the Gombe State Correspondent, Saka Ibrahim
Clinton, who spoke on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at the 18th Annual ThisDay Awards, said it has become a must therefore the Nigerian Government to tackle the issue of poverty for it to resolve the Boko Haram uprising