Hours After Being Shutdown, Popular Nigerian Newspaper Moves To Save Blushes

A fresh development has been reported following the shutdown of popular media organization, This Day, by members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) over the company’s refusal to pay its staff salaries for about eight months.

In a report on Premium Times, This Day Newspapers has committed to paying three months’ salary arrears of its staff who were owed for eight months after the premises of the media organization was shut down on Wednesday, July 8, 2015.

The media outfit is expected to pay the remaining five months’ arrears in August.

The disclosure was made, Friday, by the Lagos NUJ Chairman, Deji Elumoye, who is also a staff of This Day Newspapers.

He said: “We succeeded in getting three months pay for This Day staff on Wednesday evening while the remaining five months will be cleared by August. The picketing exercise stands suspended.”

Protesting NUJ members

This Day is owned by the President of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, Nduka Obaigbena.

Meanwhile, DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television and Ray Power, is up next for picketing by journalists, said Elumoye.

The acting president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peters Adeyemi, had accused AIT of owing 17 months salary arrears.

Other newspapers include Independent Newspapers Limited, publishers of Daily Independent (nine months arrears), and Tell Magazine (eight months); National Mirror and Newswatch Daily (seven months), both owned by Jimoh Ibrahim, The News/PM News (nine months), The Daily Champion (18 months), Hallmark owned by Emeka Obasi (eight months) and The Daily Times (six months).

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