Flamboyant publisher of THISDAY, Nduka Obaigbena, has appealed to his workers to be patient over his inability to pay salaries, blaming the delays on last year’s Boko Haram attack on the Abuja premises of the newspaper.

Mr. Obaigbena has not paid the workers since the beginning of this year. But he promised to clear the backlog within a few weeks.

“The process has already started in Abuja and should end within the next 30 days when ALL arrears of salaries and entitlements would have been settled and we resume payments when due,”he said in a“Dear Colleague”letter to the unhappy staff.

His desperation to write the letter 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 and late 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. The TV station has been severally linked to Nigeria’s wealthy Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke as its major sponsor. Several of the broadcasters reportedly demanded three years pay in advance to forestall that fate that befell Mr. Obaigbena’s THISDAY journalists.

Given Mr. Obaigbena’s tendency to break promises made to his staff, it was unclear today if the NUJ will go ahead with the protest plan.

http://informationnaija.com/thisday-publisher-nduka-obaigbena-blames-boko-haram-for-unpaid-staff-salaries/

Ok.

everybody dey blame Boko Haram now... I am shocked he said that because of the bomblast he can't pay salaries. A supposedly big company like thisday don't even have simple insurance cover for their staff or massive investment.

Kingslaw: Ok.

if thisday that have a wide outreach, south, west , and east cant pay salaries, then dailytrust which predominately in the north will be owing their staffs next 5years salary. stupid talk. just blame BH, security and play the sympathy card. he should just admit he has embezzle the staffs money.

Typical way of running Nigerian businesses
Wickedness is all this points to
Despite TJISDAY's numerous propaganda hatchet jobs for PDP
Monkey dey work and pray to God
Baboon dey chop and groove with pastor

I remember writing a job test for ThisDay Newspapers on 1st September 2012 @ Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Omo the test hard like rock. If you are going to use the difficulty of the test to judge the pay of the staff, an entry level staff should be earning 4 milla per annum. Thank God I failed the test.

234GT: I remember writing a job test for ThisDay Newspapers on 1st September 2012 @ Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Omo the test hard like rock. If you are going to use the difficulty of the test to judge the pay of the staff, an entry level staff should be earning 4 milla per annum. Thank God I failed the test.

Lol ode ni