FG directs NPA to pay workers salaries to avert shutting down of nation’s ports

The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to pay salaries and allowances of dockworkers.

The president of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Mr. Emmanuel Nted, made the disclosure at a briefing in Lagos on Friday.

He said the Federal Ministry of Transport in a letter on August 4 to NPA’s managing director, signed by the Director of Maritime Services in the ministry, S. U. Galadanchi, directed the management of the NPA to settle the salaries of the workers.

Maritime workers had threatened to shutdown ports in the country from August 6 over unpaid salaries to dock workers.

Also, the President of Dockworkers’ Branch of MWUN, Mr Adewale Adeyanju, said although efforts are being made to solve the issue, workers will shutdown the ports if they fail to receive concrete assurance on the payment of the salaries by close of work today.
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