While he is eating and getting fat, the publisher of Thisday Newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, has appealed to his workers to endure with him over his inability to pay their salaries. In a letter to his workers, he blamed the delays on last year’s Boko Haram attack on the Abuja premises of the newspaper.
Mr. Obaigbena has not paid Thisday workers since the beginning of this year, 2013.
According to Sahara Reporters, his desperation to write the letter, in which he promise to pay them within 30 days, might not be unconnected with a plan by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to commence a protest in the premises of his paper next week over the unpaid salaries.
Many of his employees were complaining about unpaid salaries long before the Boko Haram attack.
Mr. Obaigbena recently commenced a global TV station - Arise TV- in London with big broadcast stars on his payroll. Many of the workers in London reportedly demanded three years pay in advance to forestall the sad fate that befell his workers at Thisday Newspaper in Nigeria.
Mr. Obaigbena is known to break promises he made to his staff in Nigeria. Will this one be different?
