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Unpaid Salaries: Surveillance Workers Shut Down Oil Facilities In Delta

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1 year ago

April 14, 2023

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Workers of Mormar Marines Ltd, a pipeline surveillance firm, Thursday, shut down oil installations in the Oil Mining Lease, OML, 30 over the non-payment of backlog of salaries owed them by the company and Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC.

The workers who converged on Pigging Manifold located in the Erhiemu oil field, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, said they were forced to shut down the facilities being operated by joint venture partners, NPDC, Heritage and Shoreline because they could no longer endure hunger.

Displaying placards which bore various inscriptions such as “You cannot owe us and disengage us”, “NPDC, stop this divide and rule”, “We are comfortable working with Mormar Marines,” among others, they said NPDC had concluded plans to terminate their jobs without any arrangement to pay them the six months outstanding salaries.

Addressing newsmen, representative of the workers, Lucky Ofuomukoro said they had been on protest at the manifold since last Wednesday to register their grievance with no positive response from NPDC.

He said: “Last December, the management of Mormar Marines Ltd called us for a meeting where they told us that the job has been terminated and we said if they no longer need our services, we have to quit. We told them to pay the salary they were owing us so that we can go to our houses.

“At the end of the day, the management of the company called us for a meeting where we told them to extend the job and they told us to go back to our duties which we did.

“At the end of March, they promised that there will be order to extend the work, but to our greatest surprise, they called us to say that the work has ended. We came back here since last week telling them to pay our salaries, but till this moment, nobody from NPDC, Heritage and Shoreline has come; they just left us like that.

“We don’t have power to damage the facilities, the only power we have is to shut them down and that is what we have done”.

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Edo Govt Takes Custody Of 4-year-old Girl Used For Adult Content

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4 hours ago

May 14, 2024

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The Edo State Government has rescued the 4-year-old girl who was used for adult content by her father.

Recall that the police arrested the father of the minor in Auchi on Sunday, May 12, 2024, after her semi nude videos and photos sparked public outrage on social media.

Some images also showed the minor in revealing clothes while in the company of her father and some men in a hotel.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Samuel Alli, confirmed the development in a post on the X platform on Monday, May 13.

“The child is now in our custody for proper medical examination and care. We will keep you updated on her welfare. Thank you all for your contributions to ensure our kids are safe and sound both in health and mind,” he wrote.

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Aid Reveals What Peter Obi Discussed With Atiku, Saraki, Lamido During Visits

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May 13, 2024

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The reason behind the visit of 2023 presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi to top political figures such Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki and Sule Lamido has been revealed.

Obi’s spokesperson, Dr Yunusa Tanko, said the visit was in line with the former Anambra governor’s commitment to the peace and progress of the nation.

DAILY POST reported that Obi in Abuja on Monday visited some top political figures, including former Vice President, and PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President Bukola Saraki and the former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido.

“At the center of discussion during each of these visits was the state of the nation and how to reduce the suffering of all Nigerians irrespective of class and location,” Tanko said in the statement.

“In particular, the desperate condition of the downtrodden in our midst was highlighted.

“Of particular interest and emphasis in these discussions was the worrisome situation in the Northern parts of the country.”

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Gov Fubara Vows To Probe Wike

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May 13, 2024

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Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara on Monday announced a plan by his administration to set up a panel to probe previous governments including the immediate past administration of Nyesom Wike.

Governor Fubara who has been in a face-off with Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, disclosed the plan after swearing in Dagogo Iboroma as the Attorney General of the state.

The governor expressed pessimism that the lingering political crisis currently rocking the state cannot be resolved anytime soon.

Apparently referring to Wike, the governor accused his opponents of deliberately sabotaging his administration while he was hopeful that the issue in the state would be resolved amicably.

Governor Fubara vowed to make tough decisions moving forward no matter how they would be perceived by the public.

Fubara also responded to recent comments by former Attorney General Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, and his counterpart in the Ministry of Works Alabo George-Kelly.

According to the governor, the former attorney general alongside other critics of his administration have been sabotaging the progress of his government by filing nolle prosequi against the interest of the state.