So, the a chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress was sacked for being a ghost worker?

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a while.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) chairman in Kogi state Onuh Edoka, has been fired over reports that he is a ‘ghost worker’. 

Premium Times reports that the NLC chairman is one of about 9000 people sacked in the state after a screening exercise carried out to eject illegal workers from the 21 local government areas of the state. Edoka, who serves as the head of both the Medical Health Workers Union and the NLC in the state, was reportedly employed in 1989, and serves as a Disease and Surveillance Officer in the state.

The NLC went on strike recently over the fuel subsidy removal. Speaking on the development, he expressed his shock over the result of the screening exercise headed by Paul Okuntimo, a retired general.