By Festus Ahon, ASABA

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has approved the payment of weigh-in allowance for staff of the State Broadcasting Service, DBS and The Pointer newspaper.

The approval effectively meets the key demand of the three unions of the two parastatals under the State Ministry of Information who had embarked on industrial action to press for the payment of the allowance.

Earlier on Monday, December 22, 2014, the Commissioner for Information, Mr Chike Ogeah alongside the Head of Service, Mr. Patrick Origho, had met the leaders of the three unions; the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Radio, Television and Theatre Workers’ Union, RATTAWU and the National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper Products Workers, NUPPPROW where they were assured of the governor’s readiness to approve the payment of the allowance.