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  • John Dubre: Nigerian who put fear in oil majors, By Owei Lakemfa

    By Owei Lakemfa

     

    THE story of Labour leader, John Enas Dubre, and the transnational oil corporations operating in Nigeria, reminds me of the temptation of Jesus Christ. There were 19 unions in the oil and gas industry before they were merged in 1977 into a mega industrial union called the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG.

     

    The oil majors might not have paid much attention to this process until the 39-year-old Dubre, a worker in the Agip Oil Company, emerged the founding NUPENG President. Immediately, alarm bells went off in the industry. He was a known committed and uncompromising trade unionist. He was a staff in the Agip Photo Reproduction Office and had been denied promotion because the company claimed that under its structure, Dubre had reached the apex or terminal stage of his career. This might have been punitive.

     

    With Dubre emerging NUPENG president, the oil majors sensed trouble. So they decided to tempt him. Within two months of his election, Agip decided to promote him by moving him to the Administration Department as Assistant Personnel Officer, APO. But the caveat was that he would have to relinquish his Presidency of NUPENG because it is a union for junior staff, while the position of APO in the Agip structure is a senior staff position. Dubre rejected the Greek gift. First, he had been denied promotion over the years because the oil company claimed he could no longer be promoted. Secondly, there was as at then, no union for senior staff of the petroleum industry. Thirdly, the position of APO under the Trade Union Act is not a “senior” but a junior staff, one to which only non-graduates qualify. Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, he had a three-year mandate as NUPENG president which he had to serve out.

     

    Agip again met Dubre. This time pointing out that his promotion meant a far higher salary. When Dubre replied that he already had that as he is entitled to N1,500 annual allowance as NUPNG president, Agip offered to pay him the allowance in addition to his higher salary in his new post provided he resigned as NUPNG president. Dubre rejected the temptation. The battle line was drawn. A furious Agip which was obviously working in tandem with other oil majors to ensure the union has a weak leadership, petitioned NUPENG through its General Secretary, Asiya Effion Otu, demanding that Dubre should be removed or voted out as he had been promoted a senior staff which made him ineligible to be a member of NUPENG. The union rejected the employer’s interference.

     

    Faced with the union’s rebuff, Agip stopped forwarding Dubre’s union dues to NUPENG. Rather, it started paying it to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, which had been established in November 1979, two years after Dubre’s election. Dubre resorted to paying his dues by cash directly to NUPENG because a basic criterion to be a member of a union is to be dues-paying.

     

    In November 1979, Dubre attended a short term intensive training in Collective Bargaining and Dispute Settlement at the International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. The company said Dubre had not informed it he was travelling out of the country, and suspended him. There was an immediate mobilisation of NUPENG members for national strike. The oil majors and the government panicked and Agip quickly rescinded the suspension.

     

    In the 1980 NUPENG elections, Dubre campaigned on the basis of his achievements in office, his new programmes and the need for the union to be independent of employers and government. Aware they could not match his campaigns, those opposed to him came up with three devices. First, they argued that since NUPENG had three zones- Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri- the Presidency should be rotated among them. That since Dubre was from the Lagos Zone, he should no longer be eligible to contest the elections. So the Port Harcourt Zone produced Mr. G.C. Okolonta, then Chairman of the AP Branch as the candidate to replace Dubre. Secondly, they argued that given the promotion by Agip, Dubre was no longer a junior staff and, therefore, was not a member of NUPENG. The third leg of their campaign was that Dubre had become close to the NLC leadership of Comrade Hassan Adebayo Sunmonu which they termed ‘Marxist’ and argued that there was the need to save NUPENG from going communist by voting out Dubre. However, the delegates voted overwhelmingly for the re-election of Dubre.

     

    The following year at the 1981 NLC Delegates Conference in Kano, Dubre was elected one of the two Deputy Presidents of the Congress. His profile rose, and his reputation as a thorough bred, upright and principled labour leader was acknowledged nationally. A campaign began to get Dubre succeed Sunmonu as NLC president at the February, 1984 Delegates Conference. As the NLC elections got closer, Dubre emerged as the candidate to beat. In fact for many, he was merely waiting to be voted and sworn in as the next NLC president.

     

    Since it was apparent that the Progressive wing of the NLC which had overwhelming majority of votes had endorsed him, the only way to stop Dubre and discontinue the radical leadership tradition of Sunmonu, was to stop him from contesting. A well-funded ‘Stop-Dubre-By All- Means’ machinery was put in motion. With the NLC conference and elections scheduled for February 27-29, 1984 in Enugu, Chief Kehinde Sofola, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation went to court on February 9, 1984 seeking an interlocutory injunction to stop Dubre from parading himself as NUPENG president, stopping the union from attending the NLC Conference and Dubre from contesting the Congress elections. Sofola was counsel to Mr. Linus Ukamba who had been sacked as NUPENG Vice President.

     

    On February 24, 1984, Justice J. Oladipo Williams granted the injunction. It was only three days to the NLC Conference and Dubre and his team had no time to extricate themselves from the judicial ambush. So Dubre became one of the best presidents NLC never had. He fought on and for the next three years, the oil industry was in turmoil until his team which included S.A. Dada as President, Frank Ovie Kokori as General Secretary, and Joseph Akinlaja and Elijah Okougbo as Deputy General Secretaries, smashed the sell-outs in the union along with their oil company backers.

     

    On August 27, 2020, the unconquerable soul of Dubre marched on, and his earthly remains were interred on Friday, November 20, 2020 in his hometown of Okpare Olomu, Ughelli South in Delta State. The Nigerian Trade Union Movement no longer produces giants like Michael Imoudu, Wahab Goodluck, Gogo Chu Nzeribe, Hassan Sunmonu and John Enas Dubre.

  • Tribunal sanctions doctors over three-month-old baby’s demise

    Tribunal sanctions doctors over three-month-old baby’s demise

    Joseph Iyoha and Mukaila Oyewumi Oladipo are medical practitioners who will be serving some degrees of punishment for their carelessness in causing the death of a three-month-old baby, Peace Johnson Oluwole.

     

    The Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal said the doctors, who were charged on seven counts were manifestly incompetent in the management of the three-month-old baby and failed to do all that was appropriate and reasonable for the treatment of the patient.

     

     

     

    The chairman of the Tribunal, Prof. Abba Waziri, in his judgment said Iyoha, who was found guilty of three counts, did not display reasonable diligence.

     

    The MDPDT said he prescribed and caused to be administered on the three-month-old baby, oral chloroquine, fansidar, and several other drugs, thereby exposing the baby to multiple anti-malarial when the baby had been placed on Artemether injection.

     

     

    The MDPDT said Oladipo was found guilty of two-count charges because even though he found the patient to be asphyxiated and in obvious respiratory distress, he chose to busy himself with taking the patient’s history for more than 30 minutes rather than attend to the obvious emergency.

     

    While Oladipo was sentenced to three-month suspension, Iyoha was convicted and admonished.

    The third Doctor, Obafemi Kuye, who was charged with professional negligence for failing to take any thorough or adequate history of the patient’s condition and failure to review or attend to the patient throughout the period of admission, was discharged and acquitted.

     

    The MDPDT said, “He took a salient and adequate history of the patient’s condition and made a note of them. The baby’s maternal history and post-delivery notes were all in the file. Dr. Obafemi Kuye should therefore be commended and not condemned for his competence and professionalism in this respect. He did no wrong. The Tribunal holds the considered view that he is not guilty on count 5.”

     

    Also, Dr Agu Osundu Chukwuka, was discharged and acquitted on a charge of infamous conduct in professional respect with regards to the management of Sherifat Bola Shehu.

     

     

     

  • Jenniffer Lynn Akadakpo – A True Witness And A Nigerian, By Ibeh Aso

    Jenniffer Lynn Akadakpo – A True Witness And A Nigerian, By Ibeh Aso

    By Ibeh Aso

    At 12:31 am August 4, 2019, my phone rang from an unexpected caller at that hour. I picked up my phone to see who was calling and was surprised and worried my friend and brother Wilcox Akadakpo was the caller. The sight of his name on my phone triggered many thoughts on my mind. Rightly so, because our communication is limited to WhatsApp messages and phone calls are usually within working hours. What could have happened I asked myself? Something terrible must have happened I concluded but I remained optimistic, courageous, and positive. Sadly, it turned out our wife, sister and friend Jennifer Akadakpo had slept peacefully in death two hours ago in faraway Indian Land, South Carolina, USA.

    My first meeting with Jennifer was in 2010 when for the first time I visited the USA at the instance of her husband Wilcox Akadakpo. Wilcox and I have come a long way, growing up together in one of the most popular and populous city in Lagos, Ajegunle. Our relationship has continued with mutual respect even after Wilcox relocated to the States. I remember with nostalgia receiving his first letter soon after he relocated to Daytona Beach, Florida with a postcard in it. Proudly, I am certain I was one of the very few he wrote at that time. Now, many years have passed I was travelling to the States to be with my friend and wife Jennifer Akadakpo. I was worried about my friend’s wife. What’s her personality and character? What will be the reception, meeting her for the first time?

    I arrived Waynesboro, Pennsylvania October 2010 in their warm embrace and well-prepared dish by Jennifer. Jennifer’s smile, hospitality and love were unhypocritical. She was an epitome of kindness and this endeared her to all who came in contact with her. During the week, she masterminded what will prove to be the high point of my vacation, the visit to the three Branch offices of Jehovah’s witnesses in the United States of America at that time (Brooklyn, Patterson and wakhill). Jennifer was so proud of her husband Nigerian heritage and will ask me so many questions about our growing up in Ajegunle, Nigeria. No one will believe we were just meeting for the first time because of our interactions.

    Following that memorable visit, my relationship with my friend and his wife Jennifer grew even stronger. Jennifer, my wife Olabisi and my children bonded so well with many visits to their home in the States. Her mother inlaw Lina Akadakpo was very fond of her, their cordial relationship can’t be described. Wilcox sometimes felt Jealous watching them discussing, most times it’s a plan against Wilcox. Jennifer was a bridge builder. Although Wilcox mum and father were separated, Jennifer will not take side. Remarkably, she will ensure her father-in-law who couldn’t visit the State gets gifts from her through me. I can’t tell you the feelings those gifts evoke in the father-in-law when I deliver them.

    Jennifer’s love for Nigerian food will cause you to salivate. At the slightest opportunity of our visiting, she is so happy that her freezers will be replenished with Nigerian soups and stews, especially for her husband. During my last visit to their South Carolina home in March 2019 at the critical point of her sickness, Jennifer will not resist the taste of my soup. Perhaps, she knew that would be her last taste of Nigerian soup. That night before my departure to Georgia, Atlanta she thanked me so much for visiting and especially for bringing along food ingredients and cooking for Wilcox. She told me how she wished her health had allowed her visit Nigeria again. Unknown to me that would be the last time we would share good times together until paradise. I was glad I made it.

    Jennifer was born on November 8, 1977, in Daytona Beach, Florida to Judy and Leron Howard. On June 3, 1995, same day she graduated from High School, she got baptised as one of Jehovah’s witnesses. After her baptism and as her love for Jehovah grew, she set spiritual goals for herself. She reached one of those goals on June 1, 1999, when she became a full-time minister and spent many hours helping her neighbours to learn of the Bible’s promises of a future paradise in a world without pain, sickness, or death(Revelation 21:3,4).

    She met Wilcox Akadakpo from Ededebiri Village, Sagbama Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Nigeria who also shared same goals she had. They got married on January 20, 2001, and she continued her full-time service until November 2017 when her circumstances changed, and her health was declining. Sadly, on August 3, 2019, Jennifer Lynn Akadakpo peacefully slept in death after years of battle with Cancer. Jennifer lived a life of self-sacrifice, spending time in Daytona Beach, Florida, Germantown Maryland, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Severn Maryland, India Land, South Carolina helping some to develop and rekindle their love for Jehovah.

    Jennifer Lynn Akadakpo was a true Witness and a Nigerian.

    Ibeh Aso

    Lagos, Nigeria

  • Police rescue American woman held hostage in Lagos hotel by Nigerian ‘lover’ for 16 months

    Police rescue American woman held hostage in Lagos hotel by Nigerian ‘lover’ for 16 months

    Police operatives have successfully rescued an American citizen, who was confined in a Lagos hotel, where she was held against her wish for over a year by a Nigerian man she met on social media

    Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, DCP, Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.

    Mba said the victim, who hails from Washington DC, USA and is a retired civil servant in the US, arrived Nigeria on 13th February, 2019 on a visit to one Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku, a 34-year old man, from Ikeduru local government area of Imo State whom she met on Facebook.

    “She was however rescued by Police operatives attached to the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Ogun State Annex following information received from a patriotic and civic minded Nigerian in the Meran area of Lagos State.

    “The rescue of the American lady is coming on the heels of a similar case of abducted Philippino lady who was lured to Nigeria by her supposed lover whom she equally met on Facebook.

    “Investigations reveal that the suspect, Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku is a graduate of Business Administration and Management and an internet fraudster who has defrauded many unsuspecting members of the public both locally and internationally.

    Chukwuebuka deliberately lured the victim into the country under the pretext of love and deceitfully married her on 15th May, 2019.

     

    “ He subsequently held her captive in a hotel, extorted from her monies amounting to a total of 48,000-USD.

    He also forcefully collected and took control of her credit and debit cards as well as the operation of her bank accounts including the receipt of her monthly retirement benefits and allowances over the period of fifteen (15) months.

    Chukwuebuka also used the victim as a front to defraud her associates and other foreign personalities and companies,” he said.

  • Changing the Nigerian Narrative – Hope Eghagha

    By Hope Eghagha

    Nigerians want a changed narrative in the national life. Our politics. Our leadership (rulership) style. The economy. They want a changing narrative. A changing narrative will give cause for hope. It will mean that something is indeed happening. They want the story of their country to change. The bad news about the economy. The bad news about official corruption. About stealing public funds in billions. About insecurity. About interethnic tension. Suspicion of ethnic domination. Seizing oil wells from the Niger Delta and donating them to persons who live thousands of kilometres away. About the big three ethnic groups selfishly and greedily controlling the narrative and the national patrimony. That once it is good for them the rest can go to hell. Nigerians want a change in the attitude of leaders to governance. Change in infrastructure development and maintenance. But how many Nigerians are willing to change their mental orientation about Nigeria?

    The story out there is no good. Social media interaction. There is intense frustration. Things are not changing. Things are not about to change. The optics are terrible. The perception is worse. The youth have no hope in Nigeria. And there are millions of them. Millions who are willing to do just anything to survive. To fit in. To guarantee a future. To enjoy the gleam. Get a car, a good car, live in a good place. Have a fat bank account. Do their things their own way. They do not connect with government. They believe the country has no plans for them. That government is a scam. That education is a scam because it won’t get them to the promised land. They see a recycled group of persons in the leadership class as part of the problem.

    There are too many conflicting images. Too many conflicting actions. There is no moral compass. Get rich in the dark? The dark is no longer dark. Their government officials get rich in the dark and nothing comes of it. So, why not get rich too in their own way through internet crimes and fraud. The country is a dump. A jungle. Anything goes. Some officials they believe make a show of arresting some people, of jailing some. But the underlying belief is that the so-called rich are all criminals. Bad men and women who never got caught. Or who are too powerful to be caught. Why can we build a nation on this shaky and immoral belief system?

    Yet if you meet the average Nigerian, both at home and in the Diaspora (especially the latter) they want a new Nigeria. One of the attractions of the pre-2015 Buhari machine was the emergence of a new Nigeria. A new Nigeria with a new sheriff in town. The Jonathan administration was portrayed as no good. PDP characters were perceived as despoilers who pocketed the national wealth at the expense of national development. Now people know better. There is no difference between the right and left ears of a horse, as Ola Rotimi says in The Gods are Not to Blame. The narrative has not changed. Under the Buhari administration, there is the perception of ethnic domination. Of an ethnic group being untouchable. Forests are occupied by men who kill and destroy their host communities while tending their animals. Yet, the government pretends all is well. The narrative must change.

    A changed narrative will benefit everyone. Both the ruler and the ruled. The rich and the poor. The COVID-19 pandemic shows that the narrative must change. We must develop our society. Build our institutions. Build our roads. Build up individuals. Expand the economy. Move away from dependence on oil. Embark on a programme of massive employment creation for the youth. Create a modern society. Build bridges across ethnic groups. Open the space for individuals to realise their full potential. Power generation and distribution must improve. Petty businesses must grow. Improve state and national security. That way we can withdraw all policemen attached to public officials. Once the land is secure there will be no need for individual protection using the resources of the state.

    The narrative must change. It must start from the leadership class. Positive words and actions are needed. When visionary leaders emerge and take over governance there will be a difference. I still wonder why in our history it was only military governments that were more successful in trying to forge a consensus at the federal level. In the First Republic the regional governments galvanised the people into productive ends. We cannot say the same for the successive civilian governments. It is not a good sign. It is not good for the unity and growth of the country.

    A changing narrative will include a restructured Nigeria. It is immoral and fundamentally flawed for States to depend on allocation of funds from Abuja monthly. Dependence on exportation of crude oil for national survival is part of the old narrative. No modern nation survives on that. A new narrative will create a people-centred government. Not a government that the people perceive as their own equivalent of natural disasters. And when we speak of a changing narrative, we do not mean resorting to a propaganda warfare, spinning bare-faced lies with insulting arrogance. It means getting down to do the real work. A government of the people, for the people and by the people. The real intent of democracy.

    A changed narrative comes from a recognition of the fact that the current pathway has failed the people. Once proper leadership is provided the people must follow. In their own private lives, the narrative must change too. These days one cannot entrust petty cash or businesses to family or friends. Most of them invariably steal the business dry. Products are not properly developed or constructed. Cheating customers is a way of life. Life is considered as the here and now. Selfishness is deep. The common good is abstract. This must change. The change must start from individuals in any capacity we find themselves.

    Finally, if the leaders/rulers do not take steps to change the narrative, the people will be pushed to the wall and they will change the narrative. There are snippets of this already. And the government ought to take a cue. Evil or an evil system of things does not last forever. History and the worlds two major religions teach us this!

    Eghagha can be reached on 08023220393

  • Danish-Nigerian prosecuted for ‘dealing in hard drugs’

    Danish-Nigerian prosecuted for ‘dealing in hard drugs’

    A dual citizen of Nigeria and Denmark, Oladapo Ifedayo Oluseyi, was on Monday brought before a Federal High Court in Lagos for unlawfully dealing in hard drugs.

    Oluseyi, also known as Dayo, was arraigned by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on a four-count charge of conspiracy, unlawful cultivation of, dealing in hard drugs and unlawful possession of the said banned substance.

    According to NDLEA prosecutors Augustine Nwogu and Jonathan Igwubor, the defendant was arrested on May 18, 2020, at 7, Imam Augusto Close, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    The NDLEA told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that the defendant was found in possession of 1.127 kilogrammes of cannabis cream; 83 grammes of hashish oil: 123mg THC-70mg CBD and 21kg of cannabis infused ethanol.

    The defendant was also alleged to have illegally engaged in the hypotonic growing of 80 grammes of fresh cannabis sativa plants and 25 grammes of dried cannabis sativa plants, a drug similar to cocaine, heroin and LSD etc.

    The court also heard that he allegedly unlawfully engaged in the buying of equipment meant for a clandestine laboratory which he established in his building for the production and or manufacture and extraction of the said hard drugs.

    The crimes, according to the NDLEA, contravened the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 and its Protocols and the Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1989, (as contained in the Second Schedule of the NDLEA ACT, 2004).

    The defendant pleaded “not guilty.”

    Justice Oweibo admitted him to bail in the sum of N5 million with one surety in the like sum.

    The surety must be a tax payer with landed property within the court’s jurisdiction, while the defendant must deposit his Nigerian and Danish passports with the court

    Justice Oweibo remanded the defendant in NDLEA custody pending perfection of the bail conditions and adjourned till November 5, for trial.

  • Lagos begs doctors as NMA orders indefinite sit-at-home

    The Nigerian Medical Association in Lagos State has asked its members to embark on an indefinite ‘sit-at-home’ over alleged harassment and intimidation of medical workers by security agents in the state.

    The NMA on Wednesday gave the directive in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr Saliu Oseni, and Secretary, Dr Ramon Moronkola, adding that the directive took effect from 6pm on Wednesday.

    The Lagos NMA accused police officers in Lagos of acting contrary to the directives of the Federal Government on lockdown order, noting that their members were unsafe.

    “As a direct result of the conflicting directives of the government and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, the Lagos State branch of Nigerian Medical Association was inundated yesterday (Tuesday) evening of several cases of harassment and intimidation of doctors and other health workers by officers and men of the Lagos State Police Command to the extent that even ambulances carrying patients with emergency cases were impounded. This has become a recurrent issue.

    “The Lagos State branch of the NMA has resolved that it is presently unsafe for members to continue to provide healthcare services under the present confused arrangement.

    “You are hereby advised to proceed on a sit-at-home, in your best interest, starting from 6pm today, Wednesday, 20th May, 2020 indefinitely, until otherwise advised,” the statement said.

    However, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, said the issue had been resolved.

    He said, “Before it got to this level last night (Tuesday), the Lagos State Government intervened and called the top hierarchy of the police and told them the confusion we had in town and immediately the matter was resolved.

    “When the NMA said it was going on strike, the commissioner for health and everybody have been on it and they have spoken to them that the police had reversed themselves and there was no need to go on strike and they agreed.”

  • I’m an ambassador of myself, I don’t represent Nigeria-Chimamanda Adichie declares

    I’m an ambassador of myself, I don’t represent Nigeria-Chimamanda Adichie declares

    Popular Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie has said she doesn’t consider herself as an ambassador of Nigeria, adding that she detests certain things about the nation.
    The award winning author made this known in a chat with TheAfricaReport
    According to her: “No. I am an ambassador for myself. I don’t represent Nigeria; there are things about Nigeria I don’t like. But, at the same time, I am very very proud of my Nigerian identity,” Adichie said.
    “I was born and raised in Nigeria, which I didn’t leave until I was 19. I’m proud to be Nigerian, I’m proud to be African, I’m proud to be Igbo. I won’t be who I am today if I wasn’t all of those things.”

     

    The ‘Purple Hibiscus’ novelist, also opened up on why she initially refused an American passport.
    “For a long time, I didn’t want to become a US citizen because I believed that part of the experience of being Nigerian is experiencing the humiliations of traveling on a Nigerian passport,” she added.
    “But I changed my mind about US citizenship after my father was kidnapped in 2015 and it was the American embassy in Lagos and not the Nigerian government who helped my family.
    “They even sent a therapist to my father after he was released. I now plan to become an American citizen at some point, but I guess I’m still delaying it.”
    TheNewsGuru recalls that back in March, Adichie made headlines after she denied the plagiarism claims of Anne Giwa-Amu, a Welsh author and lawyer, with respect to her historic novel ‘Half of A Yellow Sun’.
  • Nigerian woman gives birth on plane returning evacuees from Dubai

    Nigerian woman gives birth on plane returning evacuees from Dubai

    A plane conveying Nigerian citizens from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has made a U-turn after a pregnant woman gives birth to a baby mid-air.

    Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made this known on Wednesday.

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, had said 265 Nigerians would arrive in Lagos from Dubai on Wednesday as part of efforts to bring citizens willing to come back to the country amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

    It was gathered that the airline left Dubai for Lagos at 10am but an hour into the about eight-hour trip, the woman gave birth, forcing the pilots to return the plane to Dubai to disembark the mother and the new born.

    The plane, which was scheduled to arrive at 3pm is now expected to land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7pm.

  • [Video] FG secures release of Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook by Lebanese

    [Video] FG secures release of Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook by Lebanese

    Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), on Tuesday, said the Nigerian woman, Peace Busari Ufuoma, who was put on sale by a Lebanese has been released.

    Dabiri said the 30-year-old Oyo indigene was released to the Nigerian Embassy, Lebanon Beirut on Tuesday.

    TheNewsGuru(TNG) had reported that Jerro, who resides in Beirut Lebanon, sent in an image alongside the data page of the 30-year-old Nigerian, Peace Busari Ufuoma to a Facebook group called ‘Buy and Sell Lebanon.’

    The culprit had placed a $1,000 bill on the domestic worker.

    Also, the Lebanese Government had last week arrested Wael Jerro.

    Confirming Ufuoma’s release, Dabiri on Twitter wrote, ”Update on Nigerian girl put up for sale Lebanese, Wael Jerro on Facebook.

    “She has been rescued and safely with officials of the Nigerian Mission in Beirut. More updates later,” she added.