COURT SACKS CROSS RIVER NUJ CHAIRMAN

-  The National Industrial Court, sitting in Calabar, has nullified the 2012 election of Pastor Ndoma Akpet as the chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River state council.

-   Ndoma has also been banned from seeking re-election with a fine of hundred thousand imposed on him.

- The National Secretary of the union is to oversee the Cross River state council for a period of thirty days within which another election would be conducted.

- The sacked chairman, Ndoma Akpet says though he had accepted the judgment, he intends to challenge the decision of the court to bar him from seeking re-election.

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