TUC Deputy National President, Onuegbu, is dead

Onuegbu, an economist and former TUC chairman in Rivers State was said to have passed on the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness.

Onuegbu, an indigene of Rivers State has been an active labour leader and public commentator within the State and Nigeria as a whole.

The State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Mrs. Beatrice Itubo, confirmed Onuegbu’s death to our correspondent, saying the NLC was informed about the incident on Saturday morning.

Itubo said, “Yes, it is true. Early hours of this morning they informed us and we also sent people and we went to confirm.

“It is really terrible. I didn’t hear that he was sick. It is just this morning somebody told me that he had a headache and went to the clinic and they were taking care of him, then suddenly early hours of this morning he gave up the ghost.