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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Federal Government has published the passport numbers of 100 travelers, who failed to undergo the mandatory COVID-19 test after returning to Nigeria. Their details were published by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Saturday. It said the restrictions started from January 1, 2021 and would last till June 30, 2021.
2. The Chief of Protocol to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Tosin Ogunbodede has lost his life in a fatal road accident. Ogunbodede, a close aide of the governor was said to have died in an accident that occurred on Saturday night along Ilesha highway. The accident also claimed the life of his driver.
The Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Chika Onuegbu, is dead.
Onuegbu was said to have passed on the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness.
Punch reported that the State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Mrs. Beatrice Itubo, confirmed Onuegbu’s death to its correspondent on Saturday.
According to her, “Yes, it is true. Early hours of this morning they informed us and we also sent people and we went to confirm”.
“It is really terrible. I didn’t hear that he was sick. It is just this morning somebody told me that he had a headache and went to the clinic and they were taking care of him, then suddenly early hours of this morning he gave up the ghost”.
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It was supposed to be one of these common-place flings that married men have all of the time but when Banky embarked on his a few years ago, it changed the course of his life, and his family’s forever. According to him: “I was one of the early casualties of the so-called current economic crunch. I lost my job when the small company I worked for pruned its staff to just six. I was the accountant, and my misfortune happened just about when the bi-annual rent of our flat was due and I couldn’t pay up. In the end, my parents-in-law agreed to accommodate us … in their home until I found a job.
Rivers TUC mourns death of deputy national president, Onuegbu Rivers TUC mourns death of deputy national president, Onuegbu
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The sudden death of Chika Onuegbu, Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and former Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of TUC has thrown the labour movement, friends and associates as well as residents of Port-Harcourt, capital of oil-rich state into deep mourning.
The National Industrial Relations Officer of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), was reported to have died in Port Harcourt after a brief illness.
Sources said he complained of a headache earlier on the day and was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.
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The Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Chika Onuegbu, is dead.
DAILY POST learnt that the former Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of TUC and National Industrial Relations Officer of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), died after a brief illness.
Sources said he complained of headache early Saturday and was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.
The outspoken labour leader, it was further learnt, recently bagged a distinction-Masters in Law- from a University in the United Kingdom.
His unfortunate demise has thrown the labour movement, friends and associates as well as residents of Port-Harcourt, capital of oil-rich Rivers State into deep mourning.