At least 100 retired and serving workers of the New Nigerian newspapers have died awaiting their entitlements from owners of the company, governors of the 19 northern states.
The chairman, Joint Union of the company, Friday Idoko, said this after a congress in Kaduna, on Wednesday.
He urged northern governors who are owners of the company, to expedite action on sale of the company’s property to offset workers’ entitlements and other liabilities.
Idoko said many staff had been evicted by their landlords, their children sent out from schools, while many others died due to heart-related ailments.
He said: “It is in this low spirit that we have converged here, both serving and retired staff, from September 2006 till date, who have worked for northern governors, to express our displeasure over the snail speed of bidding and sales process of property owned by the company to pay us our entitlements.
“Our union executives have been calming the nerves of members, urging them to exercise patience as they await their unpaid salaries,” he said.
