As if the embarrassing slip on its the online forum was not bad enough, Insight newspaper, the self-styled “Independent Voice” of the people, also went ahead to print a cover story entitled: “Uyo Senatorial District PDP Adopts Umana: Bars Other Contestants”, perhaps in anticipation of the outcome of the meeting
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Erijo said that the committee visited the Federal Ministry of Information and Radio House on January 22, where they met with the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Kehinde Ajoni
In a communique issued at the end of the meeting and signed by the President of the Union, Mallam Mohammed Garba, and the National Secretary, Shauib Usman Leman, the NEC gave April 31 as the deadline for the payment of all outstanding salaries, after which picketing of defaulting media houses will commence from May 1, 2013 in Lagos before it is extended to other states of the federation and Abuja
The Lagos NUJ gave the commendation on the heels of reported cases of non-payment of staff salaries by many companies, especially some media houses in the country
The IGP, according to Lagos journalists, should use his experience as a crack police detective to revisit the investigation into the murder of the Giwa